I've used that in a few admin pages, as far a I understand it just restricts the allowed values for a model's foreignkey field when editing a model instance. I don't see any way to use that to change how the `list_filter` functions -- am I missing something?
Thanks, Paul On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Mike Dewhirst <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/02/2018 5:23 AM, Paul Tiplady wrote: > >> Currently it's simple to configure a filter on a foreign key in the admin: >> >> `list_filter = ['theforeignkeyfield']` >> >> However in practice this is barely usable in most cases that I've >> encountered, since the admin uses RelatedFieldListFilter, which fetches the >> full list of objects from the DB and loads them into the browser. For any >> production site that either times out or makes the admin unusably slow, not >> to mention the UX is terrible as it inserts a list of all of the items into >> the filter bar that needs to be scrolled through. >> >> I'm not sure if this is fixed in 2.0 (I haven't played with the new >> select2 integration that was added), but is there a plugin / workaround to >> use something like django-autocomplete-light, or a `raw_id_field` type >> approach in pre-2.0? >> > > Have you looked at ... > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/contrib/admin/# > django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.formfield_for_foreignkey > > M > > > -- >> 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] <mailto: >> [email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms >> gid/django-users/4e610074-ff8c-494d-977e-cf701c8cd92f%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/4e610074-ff8 >> c-494d-977e-cf701c8cd92f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email >> &utm_source=footer>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/to > pic/django-users/j2pDXmEGvJE/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms > gid/django-users/89fd33b4-c8fb-09ac-1f0b-296f82463f55%40dewhirst.com.au. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAA%2BchP8RGR8HtC61bSAftMcexhQigLZsxy-tVd3T5jmz8P_HQg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
