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Reputation: 69

Django. Inline formset with existing instances of model in template

I use Django 1.7.11 and python 2.7. I have two models:

class Adv(models.Model):
   title = models.CharField(max_length=255, blank=True)
   description = models.TextField(blank=True)

class ImageFile(models.Model):
   file = models.ImageField(upload_to=generate_imgname, max_length=50, blank=True)
   adv = models.ForeignKey(Adv)

Instance of Adv can have 10 image files. ImageFile is inline in admin. I need in the template show the instance of Adv with all it's image files and image files must be with form to delete or chance it. What is the best way to do it? I tryed inlineformset_factory but it show only form with file input without existing image files.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1483

Answers (1)

hermy67
hermy67

Reputation: 138

Did you try using formset? https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/forms/modelforms/#model-formsets Try this. I havent tried it out but I did something similar in my project and it worked. I hope it helps.

forms.py

class AdvForm(ModelForm):
 class Meta:
  model = Adv
  fields = ['title','description']

class ImageFileForm(ModelForm):
 class Meta:
  model = ImageFile
  fields = ['file','adv']

in your views.py,

do something like pass your instance of adv

def getAdv(request, adv_instance_id):
 adv = get_object_or_404(Adv, pk = adv_instance_id)
 ImgFileformSet = modelformset_factory(ImageFile, form = ImageFileForm)

 if request.method == 'POST':
  Adv = AdvForm(request.POST, instance=adv)
  ImgFiles = ImgFileformSet (request.POST, queryset = ImageFile.objects.filter(adv=adv_instance_id), prefix='images', )
 // your code

return render(request, 'yourtemplate', {'adv_instance_id','Adv','ImgFiles'})

and display the data in your template.

Upvotes: 2

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