Hi, Try Grappelli's Autocomplete lookups functionality. More details can be found @https://django-grappelli.readthedocs.org/en/latest/customization.html#autocomplete-lookups
Thanks, Vishwas On Tuesday, 5 March 2013 15:15:26 UTC+5:30, Almudena Vila Forcén wrote: > > Customizing a Django Admin panel, I'm using raw_id_fields > <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.raw_id_fields> > to > select a ForeignKey from a Model which has thousands of elements, because > the default select-box drop-down is inconvenient with so many elements. > > It works but it shows the id as can be seen on this image: > > [image: enter image description here] > <http://i.stack.imgur.com/LE1cr.png> > > Is there any way to show the name or other field instead of the id? Or, is > there any better way to accomplish this than using raw_id_fields? > > This is my code in models.py: > > class Structure(MPTTModel): > name = models.CharField(max_length=200, unique=True, verbose_name = > _('name')) > parent = TreeForeignKey('self', null=True, blank=True, > related_name='children', verbose_name = _('parent')) > > def __unicode__(self): > return u"%s" % (self.name) > > In admin.py: > > class StructureAdmin(tree_editor.TreeEditor): > search_fields = ('name',) > raw_id_fields = ('parent',) > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/905d7e46-6c95-4326-bc80-6dcf25e45464%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
