Django Admin: Ordering of ForeignKey and ManyToManyField relations referencing User

Question

I have an application that makes use of Django\'s UserProfile to extend the built-in Django User model. Looks a bit like:

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Answer 1

For me, the only working solution was to use Proxy Model. As stated in the documentation, you can create own proxy models for even built-in models and customize anything like in regular models:

class OrderedUser(User):
    class Meta:
        proxy = True
        ordering = ["username"]
    def __str__(self):
        return '%s %s' % (self.first_name, self.last_name)

After that, in your model just change Foreign Key to:

user = models.OneToOneField(OrderedUser, unique=True)

or even more suitable

user = models.OneToOneField(OrderedUser, unique = True, parent_link = True)