Limit values in the modelformset field

Question

I\'ve been trying to solve this problem for a couple of days now, getting quite desperate. See the commented out code snippets for some of the things I\'ve tried but didn\'t wor

Answer 1

Category.objects.filter(user=request.user)

returns a list object for the initial value in your form which makes little sense.

Try instead

Category.objects.get(user=request.user)

or

Category.objects.filter(user=request.user)[0]

Answer 2

You don't need any kind of custom forms. You can change the queryset of category field as:

IngrFormSet = modelformset_factory(Ingredient, extra=1, fields=('name', 'category'))
IngrFormSet.form.base_fields['category'].queryset = Category.objects.filter(user__id=request.user.id)