Using Class Based Views, ModelForms, and Inlline Formsets. I’m making a recipe application in Django. Each user has their own OneToOne RecipeBook object, which in turn can hold as many recipes as needed, as each Recipe has a ForeignKey relationship to the RecipeBook object. There are also Ingredient…

While I greatly appreciate Ken’s help, I was able to solve this problem while still using inline_formsets, which I just personally found to be easier. Ken was absolutely correct, the issue is that you need to tell the formsets not to query on your CreateView, but to then query on the UpdateView: My…

My forms are being populated with the data that was entered in the last CreateView.

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harrybeards January 25, 2021, 5:18pm 5

Yep, those are also the behaviors I’m seeing as well. I’m glad its not just me that can’t seem to figure out whats going on!

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My forms are being populated with the data that was entered in the last CreateView.

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