Question

I have a video model that stores ‘likes’ as a manytomany field with User.

e.g

class Video(models.Model):
    ...
    likes = models.ManyToManyField(User)
    ....

When I create a ModelForm based on Video Likes is displayed as a dropdown with a list of all users. This is obviously ont what I want. I would like a particular user to be able to add/ remove their own name from this list. How do I instead display ‘likes’ as a checkbox and still have the form validate correctly?

Answer 1

In your model form, create a custom field for likes; when this field is checked, set likes to request.user.

from django import forms

class VideoForm(forms.ModelForm):
    likes = forms.BooleanField(label='Mark as favorite?')
    class Meta:
        model = Video

This will render likes as a checkbox (the default widget for BooleanField).