Thanks a lot Karen,
I cannot thank you enough.. The solution worked and solved many of my
problems.
Thanks a ton!
Sonal.
On Jun 19, 7:46 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Sonal Breed <sonal.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I am trying to display a formset in my application such that it only
> > contains number of forms equal to number of database instances.
>
> > My models are as below:
> > class Card(models.Model):
> > name = models.CharField(max_length=20, blank=False, null=False,
> > unique=True)
> > def __str__(self):
> > return self.name + " Card"
>
> > class CardRow(models.Model):
> > card = models.ForeignKey(ContactCard, related_name='data')
>
> > name = models.CharField(max_length=22, blank=False, null=False)
> > phone1 = models.CharField(max_length=20, blank=True)
> > relation=models.CharField(max_length=30, blank=True)
> > location=models.CharField(max_length=30, blank=True)
>
> > My forms are:
> > class CardForm(forms.ModelForm):
> > class Meta:
> > model = Card
>
> > class CardRowForm(forms.ModelForm):
> > class Meta:
> > model = CardRow
> > exclude = ('card',)
>
> > CardRowFormSet = inlineformset_factory(Card, CardRow,max_num=10,
> > extra=10)
>
> (Note the forms you mention above aren't being used when you create
> CardRowFormSet. As they are no different from what you're going to get by
> default that's no problem but I'm not sure why you have created these forms
> at all?)
>
>
>
> > I want in the formset, the number of forms to be equal to number of
> > rows per card.
> > I have tried many combinations for max_num and extra fields, but in
> > vain.
>
> > Can somebody throw light on this issue??
>
> Specify extra=0, since you don't want any extra forms and extra defaults to
> 3. You don't need to specify anything for max_num as by default the number
> of inline forms will be determined by the number of CardRows that exist for
> the Card instance you specify when you instantiate the formset.
>
> Karen
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