On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Paul Tiplady <[email protected]> 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?
>

https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/auto-complete/

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