How do I filter ForeignKey choices in a Django ModelForm?

Question

Say I have the following in my models.py:

class Company(models.Model):
   name = ...

class Rate(models.Model):
   company = models.ForeignKey(C         


        

Answer 1

So, I've really tried to understand this, but it seems that Django still doesn't make this very straightforward. I'm not all that dumb, but I just can't see any (somewhat) simple solution.

I find it generally pretty ugly to have to override the Admin views for this sort of thing, and every example I find never fully applies to the Admin views.

This is such a common circumstance with the models I make that I find it appalling that there's no obvious solution to this...

I've got these classes:

# models.py
class Company(models.Model):
    # ...
class Contract(models.Model):
    company = models.ForeignKey(Company)
    locations = models.ManyToManyField('Location')
class Location(models.Model):
    company = models.ForeignKey(Company)

This creates a problem when setting up the Admin for Company, because it has inlines for both Contract and Location, and Contract's m2m options for Location are not properly filtered according to the Company that you're currently editing.

In short, I would need some admin option to do something like this:

# admin.py
class LocationInline(admin.TabularInline):
    model = Location
class ContractInline(admin.TabularInline):
    model = Contract
class CompanyAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    inlines = (ContractInline, LocationInline)
    inline_filter = dict(Location__company='self')

Ultimately I wouldn't care if the filtering process was placed on the base CompanyAdmin, or if it was placed on the ContractInline. (Placing it on the inline makes more sense, but it makes it hard to reference the base Contract as 'self'.)

Is there anyone out there who knows of something as straightforward as this badly needed shortcut? Back when I made PHP admins for this sort of thing, this was considered basic functionality! In fact, it was always automatic, and had to be disabled if you really didn't want it!