Replace Admin Site Foreign Key Field/Dropdown with Textbox?

2010-08-08 Thread sixpackistan
For foreign key fields in the Django Admin, the default display element is a drop down list box containing all of the foreign key items from the related model. I have an asset tracking instance where this drop down box can contain hundreds of thousands of items and I am looking to not have the adm

Admin Site Performance Problem

2010-02-25 Thread sixpackistan
Anybody have any ideas on this? I am running django 1.1.1 using mod_python on apache 2.2. We have a large database of items (defined in the model as "item") that are searchable by serial number (which is indexed in the database). On the public site, one can enter in a serial number and the appropr