Pendant for inline forms for many-to-many relationships

Question

Following the instructions of Kevin Diaz in this article , I am trying to create one form for two related models. This seems to work for a one-to-many relationship, however I run into problems using many-to-many relationships.

Here is sample code for managing user roles:

#models.py
from django.db import models

class Role(models.Model): # for each role there can be multiple users
    role_name=models.CharField(max_length=20)

class User(models.Model): # each user can have multiple roles
    name=models.CharField(max_length=20)
    role=models.ManyToManyField(Role, through='UserRole')

class UserRole(models.Model): # table to store which user has which roles
    role=models.ForeignKey(Role)
    user=models.ForeignKey(User)

# forms.py
from django.forms import ModelForm
from django.forms.models import inlineformset_factory

from rightmanagement.models import Role, User

class UserForm(ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = User

RoleFormSet = inlineformset_factory(User, Role) # this is probably the line that causes the problem

# views.py
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from rightmanagement.models import User
from rightmanagement.forms import RoleFormSet, UserForm

# Create view
from django.views.generic import CreateView
class UserCreate(CreateView):
    model = User
    form_class = UserForm

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        Handles GET requests and instantiates blank versions of the form
        and its inline formsets.
        """
        self.object = None
        form_class = self.get_form_class()
        form = self.get_form(form_class)
        role_form = RoleFormSet()
        return self.render_to_response(
            self.get_context_data(form=form,
                                  role_form=role_form))

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        Handles POST requests, instantiating a form instance and its inline
        formsets with the passed POST variables and then checking them for
        validity.
        """
        self.object = None
        form_class = self.get_form_class()
        form = self.get_form(form_class)
        role_form = RoleFormSet(self.request.POST)
        if (form.is_valid() and role_form.is_valid()):
            return self.form_valid(form, role_form)
        else:
            return self.form_invalid(form, role_form)

    def form_valid(self, form, role_form):
        """
        Called if all forms are valid. Creates a Recipe instance along with
        associated Ingredients and Instructions and then redirects to a
        success page.
        """
        self.object = form.save()
        role_form.instance = self.object
        role_form.save()
        return HttpResponseRedirect(self.get_success_url())

    def form_invalid(self, form, role_form):
        """
        Called if a form is invalid. Re-renders the context data with the
        data-filled forms and errors.
        """
        return self.render_to_response(
            self.get_context_data(form=form,
                                  role_form=role_form))

These settings result in an error message <class 'rightmanagement.models.Role'> has no ForeignKey to <class 'rightmanagement.models.User'>.

After doing some research, I found this: the Django fields inlineformset_factory and ManyToMany . It seems that inline formsets are only for ForeignKeybut not for ManyToManyField. Also, documents can be interpreted as follows.

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RoleFormSet = inlineformset_factory(UserRole, User.role.through)