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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. 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.
