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jerrymouse
jerrymouse

Reputation: 17812

Replace ModelChoiceField with auto suggest textfield with same queryset

I have a ModelChoiceField in django forms:

customField  = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=MyModel.objects.filter(type="sometype"))

But this queryset returns thousands of rows, effectively choking customField in the admin interface. Instead, I need an autosuggest text field there, which will perform a like '%keystrokes%' query on above queryset. I feel this is a better option. I need a very basic auto-suggest, no fancy css. Is there any implicit support for this in django? I went through django autosuggest plugins, but they were very complex.

Can I tie it with django's core field types, like: models.ForeignKey('MyModel'), similarly, models.AutosuggestField('MyModel')

Upvotes: 1

Views: 715

Answers (1)

Mohammad Efazati
Mohammad Efazati

Reputation: 4920

see this

for admin you can have auto complete

Upvotes: 2

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