#32543: Add `search_help_text` to `admin.ModelAdmin`
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Reporter: Caram | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: contrib.admin | Version: 4.0
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: admin search_fields | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 1
Needs tests: 1 | Patch needs improvement: 1
Easy pickings: 1 | UI/UX: 1
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Comment (by Nick Pope):
This is a good idea, I too have often wondered what I am able to search
by.
The current implementation in the PR is only allowing some free-form text
to be set. I think it can be useful to allow this, but the default should
be to create a `@property` on the base class that uses the contents of
`search_fields`. This will require looking up the `verbose_name` on the
model's field based on the value in `search_fields`.
My concern about not doing this in an automated way by default is that
`search_fields` will become out of sync with `search_help_text` which will
be a worse situation than the status quo.
The placeholder idea element is nice, but if there are more than about 3
fields we'll not be able to see the entire placeholder. Again, perhaps
more misleading than helpful.
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