Django: using 'can_order' to change order of forms in FormSet

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I have a form with one field that keeps only the name of family members. I want user be able to change the order as the user wishes.

The current order is the order of their creation. I found the flag can_order for my formset; when I add it to my formset, another field appeared besides the names and that field is an integer showing the number in the list.

class FamilyMemebrsNameForm(forms.Form):
    name= forms.CharField(label=_('name'), max_length=250)

FamilyMemberNameItem = formset_factory(
    FamilyMemebrsNameForm, can_delete=True, can_order=True)

My question is: can I change the order of the forms (the names of family members) by playing with this number? If yes, how should I do that?

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Yes, by specifying can_order=True in you formset_factory, the additional field named form-N-ORDER can be used to define the order of the forms.

As the example from the link shows, you simply have to submit the new values for the order field and the ou can use iterate over the forms in order using formset.ordered_forms.

For example:

FamilyMemberFormset = formset_factory(
    FamilyMemebrsNameForm, can_delete=True, can_order=True)
formset = FamilyMemberFormset(request.POST)

if formset.is_valid():
    for form in formset.ordered_forms:
        print(form.cleaned_data)
        form.save()

BUT: if you want to store the order in the database, you need to define a new field in you model and store the order in that. The order of formsets is only present inside a single request/response, after that its gone.

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