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VahidM
VahidM

Reputation: 397

django admin - change search_fields results ordering

Is there any way to change the ordering of search results when using search_fields in your admin.py?

Here is what I have so far:

# models.py

class Book(models.Model):
    # ...
    name = models.CharField(...)
    description = models.TextField(...)

and:

#admin.py

class BookAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    # ...
    search_fields = ('name', 'description')

Then when I search something in the admin page django aggregate many results from both name and description and returns it in an order which I can't find out. I simply want to sort the results from name before the ones from description.

Is there anyway to do this in django?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1199

Answers (1)

fixmycode
fixmycode

Reputation: 8506

You can specify the default order of a model in a list using the Meta options, the admin uses this to order the instances:

class Book(models.Model):
    #...
    class meta:
        ordering = ['name', 'description']

You could also try setting the ordering in the admin, directly:

class BookAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    # ...
    search_fields = ('name', 'description')
    ordering = ['name', 'description']

Update based on your comment:

If you want to only affect the order of the results, you could intercept the QuerySet that brings you the results like so:

class BookAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    # ...
    search_fields = ('name', 'description')

    def get_search_results(self, request, queryset, search_term):
        queryset, use_distinct = super(BookAdmin, self).get_search_results(request, queryset, search_term)
        queryset = queryset.order_by('name', 'description')
        return queryset, use_distinct

Although the result of that operation could be ordered again later in the process, that is what would give you an ordered result list.

Upvotes: 3

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