Autocomplete fields in Django Admin
Django, Python
autocomplete_fields is a list of ForeignKey and/or ManyToManyField fields you would like to change to autocomplete inputs.
By default, the admin uses a select-box interface (<select>) for those fields. Sometimes you don’t want to incur the overhead of selecting all the related instances to display in the dropdown.
In the following example, ChoiceAdmin has an autocomplete field for the ForeignKey to the Question. The results are filtered by the question_text field and ordered by the date_created field:
py
class QuestionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
ordering = ["date_created"]
search_fields = ["question_text"]
class ChoiceAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
autocomplete_fields = ["question"]
