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Added some docs on model formsets in views.
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brosner committed Sep 2, 2008
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<tr><th><label for="id_form-2-name">Name:</label></th><td><input id="id_form-2-name" type="text" name="form-2-name" value="Walt Whitman" maxlength="100" /><input type="hidden" name="form-2-id" value="2" id="id_form-2-id" /></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-3-name">Name:</label></th><td><input id="id_form-3-name" type="text" name="form-3-name" maxlength="100" /><input type="hidden" name="form-3-id" id="id_form-3-id" /></td></tr>

Using a model formset in a view
-------------------------------

Model formsets are very similar to formsets. Lets say we want to present a
formset to a user to edit ``Author`` model instances::

def manage_authors(request):
AuthorFormSet = modelformset_factory(Author)
if request.POST == 'POST':
formset = AuthorFormSet(request.POST, request.FILES)
if formset.is_valid():
formset.save()
# do something.
else:
formset = AuthorFormSet()
render_to_response("manage_authors.html", {
"formset": formset,
})

As you can see the view is not drastically different than how to use a formset
in a view. The only difference is that we call ``formset.save()`` to save the
data into the database. This was describe above in :ref:`ref-saving-objects-in-the-formset`.

Using ``inlineformset_factory``
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