On Saturday, March 05, 2011 07:19:23 am Bobby Roberts wrote:
> hi all... i'm banging my head against a wall here.
> 
> consider this model
> 
> class mymodel(models.Model):
>         id = models.AutoField (primary_key=True)
>         Barcode = models.IntegerField(unique = True, blank=False)
>         CustomerId= models.ForeignKey(Customer, db_index=True,
> blank=True, null = True)
> 
> 
> Now in the admin list view, we are able to pull back
> Customer.FirstName and Customer.Lastname in the list fields.
> 
> How would i search mymodel from admin on Customer.FirstName or
> Customer.LastName?


CustomerId__LastName
CustomerId__FirstName


In the admin docs l;inked[1] below, search for "ModelAdmin.search_fields"

It's about 40% down the page.

the double underscore ('__') pretty much is universal when querying for a 
field in a related object in a model.

Mike

[1] http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/contrib/admin/
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