Django Admin - search_fields + related fields

[Ivan Goncalves]

I have these two models below: 

class business(models.Model):

    name=models.CharField(max_length=40, blank=True, null=True)

    

class phone(models.Model):

    business=models.ForeignKey(business, verbose_name='Business',blank=False)    

    phone=models.CharField(max_length=40, blank=True, null=True)

in the admin.py

class businessAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    model=business

    search_fields = phone__phone

How do we make this search work fine ? Ie, bring me all companies that possess the phone number entered by the User in the search of the form (Admin). ?

[Camilo Torres]

 Hello,

search_fields is a list of names (strings), so you must put:

search_fields = ['phone__phone']

You can also add more field names to this list for the search to include those fields. See your same example, working, here:

https://gist.github.com/camilotorresf/9143399

Regards,

Camilo