Define an order for ManyToManyField with Django

Question

Is there a way to define the order of objects related through a ManyToManyField?

Example:

• ArticleContainer1 contains in this order :
  article

Answer 1

On Django 2.0, the accepted answer of Francis Yaconiello works well with the exception of a warning caused by the max_length argument for the order field of class DepartmentPeople.

Django ignores max_length for integer fields, and will warn you in Django 1.8+.

I would add a unique_together entry in the Meta subclass

class Meta:
    #...
    unique_together = ['person', 'department', 'order']

to prevent data entry errors.