My team's having a lot of trouble finding items in Django admin site's multi-select drop-downs. How do I order items in multi-select drop-downs alphabetically?
Try doing that with the form that you are entering on Form Admin
from django import forms
class YourForm(forms.ModelForm):
attribute = forms.MultipleChoiceField(queryset=Model.objects.order_by('name'))
class Meta:
model = YourModel
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I have a model that I only want to use one row of its table. So, on admin, I would like to remove the list and add pages, and only edit the existing object. The model is this:
from django.db import models
class Banner(models.Model):
pass
class BannerImg(models.Model):
img = models.ImageField(upload_to="banners")
banner = models.ForeignKey(Banner, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
Basically, the Banner(pk=1) will be loaded by the frontend to display a landing page hero slider. I want multiple images, but also want them to be on the same admin form, so one could order, add or remove images from the same place. Of course having to Banner objects, wouldn't make sense in this case.
I can use inline fields to do the form, but how can I achieve the pages functionality (going directly to edit)?
Thanks!
Accordion to documentation.
from django.contrib import admin
class BannerImgInline(admin.TabularInline):
model = BannerImg
class BannerAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
inlines = [
BannerImgInline,
]
I've got a use case where I have multiple Ingredient that can be linked to a Recipe through the Django admin. Now I have around a hundred ingredients which makes it very difficult to select the ingredients in the following UI.
Is there a way to add a search field or something similar to the django admin for easier selection?
You have few choices.
1. filter_horizontal
With filter_horizontal, you can use horizontal m2m ui in admin. I prefer this way using m2m in admin.
class YourAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
filter_horizontal = ('m2m_field',)
...
And the result will be...
2. raw_id_fields docs
You can use raw_id_fields for using pop-up modal with your m2m fields.
It's bit useful when you have lots of m2m field. Also, it's easy to filter which m2m obj to add.
class YourAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
raw_id_fiedls = ('m2m_field',)
...
I suppose you want to filter over ingredients and select it one by one on admin UI
You can use django forms builtin CheckboxSelectMultiple
widget in place of SelectMultiple to make selection easy
from django import forms
from django.contrib import admin
class RecipeForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta(object):
model = Recipe
widgets = {
'Ingredient': forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple,
}
class RecipeAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
form = RecipeForm
admin.site.register(Recipe, RecipeAdmin)
Alternatively, you can use django-better-filter-widget
package if you want a search input on choices, Refer Github repo for
installation
It is a custom widget, created by overriding SelectMultiple widget of
django forms
from django import forms
from django.contrib import admin
from better_filter_widget import BetterFilterWidget
class RecipeForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta(object):
model = Recipe
widgets = {
'Ingredient': BetterFilterWidget(),
}
class RecipeAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
form = RecipeForm
admin.site.register(Recipe, RecipeAdmin)
I have a user, admin and employee models, both employee and admin are related to the user model with a oneToOne field what i would like to do is in the admin form i have one field "user"
instead of having a drop down field with all users i would like to have a search box so that when i search for a specific user i find him and choose him to be an admin.
how?
i also tried to add user's fields to admin's form but i couldn't
i tried the inline thing, the parent_link in the admin's model... but i couldn't find a solution
Now i would like to minimise the search through the long users list by adding a search box to the field
I have solved this type of problem using django-ajax-selects package. Hope this will help you.
app/admin.py:
from ajax_select import register, LookupChannel
#register('users')
class UsersLookup(LookupChannel):
model = User
def get_query(self, q, request):
return self.model.objects.filter(username__icontains=q)
class EmployeeAdminForm(forms.ModelForm):
user = AutoCompleteSelectField('users', required=False,
help_text=None)
class Meta:
model = Employee
fields = '__all__'
settings.py
AJAX_LOOKUP_CHANNELS = {
'users' : {'model': 'auth.user', 'search_field': 'username'},
}
Use django's raw_id_fields. With that you can declare a foreign key object searchable.
Is it possible with django to add a custom html select to an admin page in order to modify the queryset of a specific model?
For example, I have a "Product" model and inside the Products admin page I get all the product.
I would like to have an html select in that page so that the admin can change the queryset not to show ALL the products but just part of it
Thanks
The default multi-select box in the Django admin site is so small that it's incredibly difficult to use. How do I make the admin site's multi-select boxes vertically bigger?
See this SO post.
class YourModelForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = YourModel
widgets = {
'your_field': forms.SelectMultiple(attrs={'size': 12})
}
class YourModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
form = YourModelForm