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

It seems this plugin: https://github.com/lincolnloop/django-dynamic-raw-id

does what you want:

(copied from the doc):

Usage

To start using django-dynamic-raw-id in your application all you need to do is implement DynamicRawIDMixin in your ModelAdmin class and add the desired fields to a list of dynamic_raw_id_fields:

from dynamic_raw_id.admin import DynamicRawIDMixin

class UserProfileAdmin(DynamicRawIDMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
    dynamic_raw_id_fields = ('user',)

You can use dynamic_raw_id widgets in a Admin filter as well:

from dynamic_raw_id.admin import DynamicRawIDMixin
from dynamic_raw_id.filters import DynamicRawIDFilter

class UserProfileAdmin(DynamicRawIDMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_filter = (
        ('dynamic_raw_id_fk', DynamicRawIDFilter),
    )