Pre-populate an inline FormSet?

Question

I\'m working on an attendance entry form for a band. My idea is to have a section of the form to enter event information for a performance or rehearsal. Here\'s the model

Answer 1

I ran into this question -6 years later- , and we are on Django 1.8 now.

Still no perfectly clean , short answer to the question.

The issue lies in the ModelAdmin._create_formsets() github ; My Solution is to override it, and inject the initial data i want somewhere around the highlighted lines in the github link .

I also had to override the InlineModelAdmin.get_extra() in order "have room" for the initial data provided. Left default it will display only 3 of the initial data

I believe there should be a more cleaner answer in the upcoming versions