Current Admin Extensions

synopsis:Current Field Extensions

• ForeignKeyAutocompleteAdmin - ForeignKeyAutocompleteAdmin will enable the admin app to show ForeignKey fields with an search input field. The search field is rendered by the ForeignKeySearchInput form widget and uses jQuery to do configurable autocompletion.

Example Usage

To enable the Admin Autocomplete you can follow this code example in your admin.py file:

from django.contrib import admin
from foo.models import Permission
from django_extensions.admin import ForeignKeyAutocompleteAdmin


class PermissionAdmin(ForeignKeyAutocompleteAdmin):
    # User is your FK attribute in your model
    # first_name and email are attributes to search for in the FK model
    related_search_fields = {
       'user': ('first_name', 'email'),
    }

    fields = ('user', 'avatar', 'is_active')

    ...

admin.site.register(Permission, PermissionAdmin)

If you are using django-reversion you should follow this code example:

from django.contrib import admin
from foo.models import MyVersionModel
from reversion.admin import VersionAdmin
from django_extensions.admin import ForeignKeyAutocompleteAdmin


class MyVersionModelAdmin(VersionAdmin, ForeignKeyAutocompleteAdmin):
    ...

admin.site.register(MyVersionModel, MyVersionModelAdmin)

If you need to limit the autocomplete search, you can override the get_related_filter method of the admin. For example if you want to allow non-superusers to attach attachments only to articles they own you can use:

class AttachmentAdmin(ForeignKeyAutocompleteAdmin):

    ...

    def get_related_filter(self, model, request):
        user = request.user
        if not issubclass(model, Article) or user.is_superuser():
            return super(AttachmentAdmin, self).get_related_filter(
                model, request
            )
        return Q(owner=user)

Note that this does not protect your application from malicious attempts to circumvent it (e.g. sending fabricated requests via cURL).