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authorTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2015-03-28 08:54:59 -0400
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2015-03-28 08:59:50 -0400
commita70dea2c06cf834e24c4b63237af669c143a8e03 (patch)
tree251aeb9bc7d6d551e82a4d27320481b516792224
parentb0846a040ed292688b6e473768da7710abad53f6 (diff)
[1.8.x] Fixed #24541 -- Clarified ModelFormSet's handling of initial data.
Backport of 6de3a1e2c34ae5bfcdec3ebbf3d682aa578ecae0 from master
-rw-r--r--docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
index 8d5545d20c..52ea0c512a 100644
--- a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
@@ -860,7 +860,8 @@ As with regular formsets, it's possible to :ref:`specify initial data
parameter when instantiating the model formset class returned by
:func:`~django.forms.models.modelformset_factory`. However, with model
formsets, the initial values only apply to extra forms, those that aren't
-attached to an existing model instance.
+attached to an existing model instance. If the extra forms with initial data
+aren't changed by the user, they won't be validated or saved.
.. _saving-objects-in-the-formset: