Best way to create an advanced search bar for the admin app.

[Nicolas Emiliani]

Hi people.

I have this huge class Foo that has a lot of attributes , not only that but it has

an m2m relation with a through table that specifies values for each relation,

and I want to be able to search using those values.  

For example :

class Foo 

     ...

class Attr 

     ...

and the

class Has:

    foo

    attr

    value

So basically Foo Has a given Attr with value X. The idea is having on top of the search 

bar at the list form a box that lets you choose (using check boxes) the attributes and values

for each checked attribute (using text boxes).

My idea was redefining change_list.html to present that and somehow, I do not know how yet,

override the search method at the admin site.

Does it sound good? 

Has anyone done this?

Is there another approach?

Any comments will be highly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

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Nicolas Emiliani

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