Django OneToMany form on related model - django

I've created a onetomany relationship between two models. The model
that has the foreignkey I can use their formset without problems, but
now I want to fill this relation through the form of the model that
has the "many", I know I can retrieve it using the *_set, but how
can I create a MultipleChoiceField form element of this data?
Thanks for any help!
Regards,
Thiago

Have a look at the docs for fields which handle relationships. You could use a ModelMultipleChoiceField -- it's essentially a MultipleChoiceField that takes its choices from a queryset.

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