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16016	There should be a way to perform operations once the admin is done with a form	info.ksamuel@…	nobody	"Currently, adding m2m relationships programatically on a model save() is tricky if you want to use the admin: the admin calls save_m2m that clear the relationship and don't let you to hook something easily after that.

You can see the problem here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4432385/django-how-to-save-m2m-data-via-post-save-signal

And here as well, with a workaround:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3652585/simple-django-form-model-save-question

Some kind of after_form_save signal would be great for this situation."	New feature	closed	contrib.admin	1.3	Normal	duplicate	m2m admin		Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0