Auto-generate form fields for a Form in django

Question

I have some models and I want to generate a multi-selection form from this data. So the form would contain an entry for each category and the choices would be the skills in

Answer 1

Take a look at creating dynamic forms in Django, from b-list.org and uswaretech.com. I've had success using these examples to dynamically create form content from models.

Answer 2

Okay so you can't set fields like that on forms.Form, for reasons which will become apparent when you see DeclarativeFieldsMetaclass, the metaclass of forms.Form (but not of forms.BaseForm). A solution which may be overkill in your case but an example of how dynamic form construction can be done, is something like this:

base_fields = [
    forms.MultipleChoiceField(choices=[
        (pk, s.name) for s in c.skill_set.all()
    ]) for c in SkillCategory.objects.all()
]
SkillSelectionForm = type('SkillSelectionForm', (forms.BaseForm,), {'base_fields': base_fields})

Answer 3

What you want is a Formset. This will give you a set of rows, each of which maps to a specific Skill.

See the Formset documentation and the page specifically on generating formsets for models.