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

Here is how I solved the problem. There's a bit of a trade-off in creating and deleting the records, but the code is clean...

def manage_event(request, event_id):
    """
    Add a boolean field 'record_saved' (default to False) to the Event model
    Edit an existing Event record or, if the record does not exist:
    - create and save a new Event record
    - create and save Attendance records for each Member
    Clean up any unsaved records each time you're using this view
    """
    # delete any "unsaved" Event records (cascading into Attendance records)
    Event.objects.filter(record_saved=False).delete()
    try:
        my_event = Event.objects.get(pk=int(event_id))
    except Event.DoesNotExist:
        # create a new Event record
        my_event = Event.objects.create()
        # create an Attendance object for each Member with the currect Event id
        for m in Members.objects.get.all():
            Attendance.objects.create(event_id=my_event.id, member_id=m.id)
    AttendanceFormSet = inlineformset_factory(Event, Attendance, 
                                        can_delete=False, 
                                        extra=0, 
                                        form=AttendanceForm)
    if request.method == "POST":
        form = EventForm(request.POST, request.FILES, instance=my_event)
        formset = AttendanceFormSet(request.POST, request.FILES, 
                                        instance=my_event)
        if formset.is_valid() and form.is_valid():
            # set record_saved to True before saving
            e = form.save(commit=False)
            e.record_saved=True
            e.save()
            formset.save()
            return HttpResponseRedirect('/')
    else:
        form = EventForm(instance=my_event)
        formset = OptieFormSet(instance=my_event)
    return render_to_response("edit_event.html", {
                            "form":form, 
                            "formset": formset,
                            }, 
                            context_instance=RequestContext(request))