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PODjango formset data does not get saved when initial values are provided
 

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    <p>I have a formset which has some initial data provided - it's a data cloned from other model which contains 2 fields 'group' and 'requested'.</p> <p>When initial data is provided the forms in formset do not get saved, they only get saved when I'll modify the form with the data a little bit.</p> <p>When no initial data is provided forms do get saved.</p> <p>Why adding intial data to a formset makes it impossible to save formsets data to the database?</p> <p>This is my formset existing in get_context_data dictionary:</p> <pre><code> initial = ProcedureActionGroup.objects.filter(procedure__id=self.kwargs.get('pk', None)) initial_values = initial.values('group', 'requested') print initial_values initial_count = initial.count() ActionGroupFormset = inlineformset_factory(self.model, TaskGroup, extra=initial_count, form=TaskActionGroupForm, can_delete=False, ) data['formset'] = ActionGroupFormset(self.request.POST or None, initial=initial_values, **self.get_formset_kwargs()) </code></pre> <p>This is my form_valid method where I save all data</p> <pre><code>def form_valid(self, form): context = self.get_context_data() forms = [] forms.append(form.is_valid()) if self.get_procedure_obj(): formset = context['formset'] forms.append(formset.is_valid()) if all(forms): self.object = form.save(commit=False) form.save() if self.get_procedure_obj(): formset = formset.save(commit=False) for obj in formset: obj.task = self.object obj.save() self.object.extract_users() return HttpResponseRedirect(self.object.get_absolute_url()) </code></pre> <p>Model:</p> <pre><code>class TaskGroup(models.Model): task = models.ForeignKey(Task, null=True, blank=False) group = models.ForeignKey(ActionGroup, null=True, blank=True) requested = models.PositiveIntegerField(u'Requested', null=True, blank=True) </code></pre> <p>form template:</p> <pre><code>&lt;form method="post" action="" class="span6 offset2 form form-horizontal"&gt; {% crispy form%} {{formset.management_form}} {% if formset %} &lt;div&gt; &lt;fieldset&gt; &lt;table class="table table-striped"&gt; {% for form in formset%} &lt;tr&gt; {% for field in form %} &lt;td&gt; {{field}} &lt;/td&gt; {% endfor %} &lt;/tr&gt; {% endfor %} &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/fieldset&gt; &lt;/div&gt; {% endif %} &lt;div class="form-actions"&gt; &lt;button class="btn btn-primary btn-large" type="submit"&gt; Save &lt;/button&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre>
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    1. COIs your question, "Why can I only save the data in a form after I've add some values"? Also are you using the `placeholder` attribute to supply the initial data in the form?
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    2. COYes. I don't use placeholders.
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    3. COWhy would you want to save the info without any interaction? Also can you post the model that `obj` represents?
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