Make admin's many to many picker widget available in django.forms

[Rick Graves]

Hello,

This is a request for code reuse.

The many to many picker widget is available via the admin interface, but I need to put it on a form that users access. I asked on stackoverflow, but no one has answered.

​https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48040322/django-where-is-the-many-to-many-picker-widget

I upload a picture of the widget I have in mind.

Is there a way to reuse the code for this widget?

Thanks,

[Rick Graves]

screen shot of the many to many picker widget on the users admin page

[Dev Aggarwal]

you can use the widget from

from django.forms.widgets import SelectMultiple

The filter_horizontal / filter_vertical widget is accessible from

from django.contrib.admin.widgets import FilteredSelectMultiple

Fun Fact- I found this out using pycharm. Tracked the widgets of the ModelAdmin using it's Go To Declaration Feature

[Tim Graham]

FilteredSelectMultiple isn't available in django.forms because it relies on jQuery and we want to avoid coupling generally available form widgets to a specific JavaScript library. You can use the widget as suggested in the previous comment, but be aware that backwards compatibility isn't guaranteed.