Django admin choice field

Question

I have a model that has a CharField and in the admin I want to add choices to the widget. The reason for this is I\'m using a proxy model and there are a bunch of models tha

Answer 1

You need to think of how you are going to store the data at a database level. I suggest doing this:

1. Run this pip command: pip install django-multiselectfield

2. In your models.py file:

   from multiselectfield import MultiSelectField
   
   MY_CHOICES = (('item_key1', 'Item title 1.1'),
             ('item_key2', 'Item title 1.2'),
             ('item_key3', 'Item title 1.3'),
             ('item_key4', 'Item title 1.4'),
             ('item_key5', 'Item title 1.5'))
   
   class MyModel(models.Model):
         my_field = MultiSelectField(choices=MY_CHOICES)
   

3. In your settings.py:

    INSTALLED_APPS = (
         'django.contrib.auth',
         'django.contrib.contenttypes',
         'django.contrib.sessions',
         'django.contrib.sites',
         'django.contrib.admin',
   
         #.....................#
   
         'multiselectfield',
   )
   

4. Watch the MAGIC happen!

Source:

• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-multiselectfield