Create code first, many to many, with additional fields in association table

It’s not possible to create a many-to-many relationship with a customized join table. In a many-to-many relationship EF manages the join table internally and hidden. It’s a table without an Entity class in your model. To work with such a join table with additional properties you will have to create actually two one-to-many relationships. It … Read more

What is related_name used for?

The related_name attribute specifies the name of the reverse relation from the User model back to your model. If you don’t specify a related_name, Django automatically creates one using the name of your model with the suffix _set, for instance User.map_set.all(). If you do specify, e.g. related_name=maps on the User model, User.map_set will still work, … Read more