Yes, as far as I know if CustomerId was changed to: customer = models.ForeignKey(Customer)
You would be able to say: search_fields = ['barcode', 'customer__first_name', 'customer__last_name'] ...on your Tracker's ModelAdmin. Cheers On Feb 25, 5:54 pm, Bobby Roberts <tchend...@gmail.com> wrote: > consider this model (only a portion of it): > > class Tracker (models.Model): > id = models.AutoField (primary_key=True) > Barcode = models.IntegerField(unique = True, blank=False) > OrderId = models.IntegerField(blank=False) > CustomerId = models.CharField (max_length=20, blank=False) > [[sniped]] > > when you view the Tracker model in /admin on the list page, there is a > search box in the top right corner. Is it possible to search on > another model called Customer for Customer.firstname, > customer.LastName? If you notice we have CustomerId as a charfield... > if we changed that to a foreign key, is it possible to search the > Tracker model by customer firstname/lastname and if so, how? > > thanks in advance! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
