I am a complete beginner trying to build an inventory app in Django by copying examples. There are two models of interest, a item record and a name record. The item has a primary key - the manufacturer's serial number (an 11 character mix of letters and numbers) and an inventory tag (charField of 20 chars or less - which could be blank). The name record has names of staff members who may have checked out the item (name, fullname, site) where fullname is unique but the pk is generated. What I would like is a url that shows a search form. The client enters the full or partial name which returns a form showing all matching name records. The client then selects the specific name record which returns a form showing the item assigned to that client (a modelform allowing update of information in the item record).
So far I can do the search and show the matching records. The question is how to show the matching records with checkboxes, getting that result, then getting the matching record as a model form.