Help with many to many formsets

Using Django
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No, you’re right. I got the form input in the inlineformset_factory working, then when the directorylink field is set to the TextInput widget the entire query to get the data for the formset changes.

My form looks like this:

class DirectoryChoices(forms.ModelForm):
	
	class Meta:
		model = DirectoryLink_profiles
		
		fields = (
			'uselesstext',
			'profile',
			'directorylink',
			)
			
		
		widgets = {
            'directorylink': forms.TextInput(attrs={'placeholder': 'Do not edit!'}),
        }

Following which, my only problem is getting the description field on the form, where the directorylink field is the foreign key to the DirectoryLink3 model.

In SQL terms:

select DirectoryLink3.description from DirectoryLink_profiles
join DirectoryLink3 on DirectoryLink_profiles.directorylink = DirectoryLink3.id
where id = …