I want to display initial values as selected on a MultipleChoice form field in Django when the form loads. I populate a formset with different forms. Each form has only one field ‘answer’, which is initialized based on a custom parameter passed to the form’s init() method. class AnswerForm(forms.Fo…

Can we see the full definition of AnswerFormSet? I’m looking at the disparity between the form_kwargs you’re passing here: [image] Raphy-N: formset = FormHandler.AnswerFormSet(request.POST, request.FILES, form_kwargs={'questions': FormHandler.qs}) …

The code and subsequent posts are nearly a week old. I tend to work under the assumption that you’ve been working on this and trying different things. So rather than trying to piece together bits from different posts across different days, please post the full definition of AnswerFormSet.

Sorry, I didn’t hv access to my code when u asked. I thought my older post wud give u sufficient info. Here’s my forms.py file in which I overrride the get_form_kwargs(index) method of BaseFormSet: from django import forms from django.forms import BaseFormSet from .models import Question, QuestionT…

It appears to me that you’re trying to reuse the same formset instance between your get and post methods. The problem with doing that is that an instance of a formset only renders the forms once, the first time they’re needed. After that, any further reference to those forms is going to reuse them. …

Set initial selected values for forms.MultipleChoiceField

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Raphy-N August 30, 2020, 10:43pm 3

@KenWhitesell
https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/pass-different-parameters-to-each-form-in-formset/4040?u=raphy-n

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Set initial selected values for forms.MultipleChoiceField

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