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copied!<p>I guess you would have here to add a new <code>ModelMultipleChoiceField</code> to your <code>PizzaForm</code>, and manually link that form field with the model field, as Django won't do that automatically for you.</p> <p>The following snippet might be helpful :</p> <pre><code>class PizzaForm(forms.ModelForm): class Meta: model = Pizza # Representing the many to many related field in Pizza toppings = forms.ModelMultipleChoiceField(queryset=Topping.objects.all()) # Overriding __init__ here allows us to provide initial # data for 'toppings' field def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): # Only in case we build the form from an instance # (otherwise, 'toppings' list should be empty) if kwargs.get('instance'): # We get the 'initial' keyword argument or initialize it # as a dict if it didn't exist. initial = kwargs.setdefault('initial', {}) # The widget for a ModelMultipleChoiceField expects # a list of primary key for the selected data. initial['toppings'] = [t.pk for t in kwargs['instance'].topping_set.all()] forms.ModelForm.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs) # Overriding save allows us to process the value of 'toppings' field def save(self, commit=True): # Get the unsave Pizza instance instance = forms.ModelForm.save(self, False) # Prepare a 'save_m2m' method for the form, old_save_m2m = self.save_m2m def save_m2m(): old_save_m2m() # This is where we actually link the pizza with toppings instance.topping_set.clear() instance.topping_set.add(*self.cleaned_data['toppings']) self.save_m2m = save_m2m # Do we need to save all changes now? if commit: instance.save() self.save_m2m() return instance </code></pre> <p>This <code>PizzaForm</code> can then be used everywhere, even in the admin :</p> <pre><code># yourapp/admin.py from django.contrib.admin import site, ModelAdmin from yourapp.models import Pizza from yourapp.forms import PizzaForm class PizzaAdmin(ModelAdmin): form = PizzaForm site.register(Pizza, PizzaAdmin) </code></pre> <h3>Note</h3> <p>The <code>save()</code> method might be a bit too verbose, but you can simplify it if you don't need to support the <code>commit=False</code> situation, it will then be like that :</p> <pre><code>def save(self): instance = forms.ModelForm.save(self) instance.topping_set.clear() instance.topping_set.add(*self.cleaned_data['toppings']) return instance </code></pre>

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