Pagination for FormSet

[Parth Patil]

Having pagination directly built into FormSet will really be a nice shortcut for users. This will enable people to use formset with more versatility. For e.g. can benefit from this.

[Parth Patil]

Here is a PR for the new feature
​https://github.com/django/django/pull/11558

[Mariusz Felisiak]

Can you describe the use case and your motivation? I'm not sure how it would work. "Normally" you will lose all entered data after changing a page.

[Parth Patil]

Replying to felixxm:

Can you describe the use case and your motivation? I'm not sure how it would work. "Normally" you will lose all entered data after changing a page.

I intended it to be used for model formsets. Mostly for e.g. blog sites if there are 100 blog models on can easily have it paginated and well formatted using formsets while also selecting which fields to show.

[Mariusz Felisiak]

I don't see any benefit in using a paginated formset in this scenario, because you will be able to work only on a single page i.e. only with a subset of forms from formset. It's not necessary to create formset with 100 forms to use only 10 of them. You should rather paginate a queryset and create formset for a single page.

[Carlton Gibson]

Hey Parth.

Mostly for e.g. blog sites if there are 100 blog models…

In this case don’t you paginate the queryset prior to creating the FormSet?

[Parth Patil]

Replying to felixxm:

because you will be able to work only on a single page i.e. only with a subset of forms from formset.

I agree with that, but I meant this feature to be more as a method of representation of data rather than taking input from the user.

Replying to Carlton Gibson:

In this case don’t you paginate the queryset prior to creating the FormSet?

I guess I'm thinking of a very specific example where the queryset is itself large enough, like a blog having over 100 replies.

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It's more like I see this being useful if used with models, this will give a quick way of representing different models using formsets, where even the queryset is large enough.

[Carlton Gibson]

Hey Parth. I think we need to pin down the use-case before moving forward with this. Let's do that on the email.