raw_id_fields: How to show a name instead of id?

Question

Customizing a Django Admin panel, I\'m using raw_id_fields to select a ForeignKey from a Model which has thousands of elements, because the default select-box drop-down is i

Answer 1

From Django 2.0 you can use autocomplete_fields. It will work just like ajax select2.

In admin.py

class StructureAdmin(tree_editor.TreeEditor):
    search_fields = ('name',)
    autocomplete_fields = ('parent',)

Reference: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.autocomplete_fields