Django: Admin inline forms initial data for every instance

Question

I\'ve been reading a lot but I don\'t seem to be able to figure out a solution to this.

I\'m writing an application in Django, I\'m still writing the admin side.

Answer 1

Not sure exactly why you want to do this, but perhaps you could create a modelformset:

from django.forms.models import BaseModelFormSet
class ServerFormSet(BaseModelFormSet):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(ServerFormSet, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.initial = [{ 'name': 's1', }, {'name': 's2'},] # supply your list here

and set this on your inline:

class ServerInline(admin.TabularInline):
    form = ServerInlineAdminForm
    model = Server
    extra = 39
    formset = ServerFormSet

I have not tried this out.

See: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.InlineModelAdmin.formset

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/modelforms/#providing-initial-values

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/formsets/#using-initial-data-with-a-formset