Enumerating objects in foreign key in the admin

[Christophe Pettus]

Right now, when one has a foreign key field in a detail page in the admin, it appears to enumerate the objects (one at a time) in order to build the pop-up. Obviously, if the other side of the foreign key relationship has a lot of entries, this can be a problem. Short of doing a different, custom widget, is there a way to avoid this?
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-- Christophe Pettus
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[Russell Keith-Magee]

Hi Christophe,

The built-in way to handle this is to add a `raw_id_fields` declaration to your ModelAdmin or Inline definition. This will replace the pulldown select widget (populated with every possible value) with a single text input that stores the primary key of the related object, plus a popup that makes it easy (well… easier) to find the right PK.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.raw_id_fields

Of course, a custom widget might give you a better UI, but if you're just looking to make it work and not drag the rendering of the admin UI page to a crawl, it works.

Yours,

Russ Magee %-)

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[Christophe Pettus]

Brilliant, thank you!

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