http://django-ajax-selects.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
pip install django-ajax-selects
Add the app:
# settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'ajax_select', # <- add the app
...
)Include the urls in your project:
# urls.py
from django.conf.urls import url, include
from django.conf.urls.static import static
from django.contrib import admin
from django.conf import settings
from ajax_select import urls as ajax_select_urls
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = [
# place it at whatever base url you like
url(r'^ajax_select/', include(ajax_select_urls)),
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
] + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)Define a lookup channel:
# yourapp/lookups.py
from ajax_select import register, LookupChannel
from .models import Tag
@register('tags')
class TagsLookup(LookupChannel):
model = Tag
def get_query(self, q, request):
return self.model.objects.filter(name__icontains=q).order_by('name')[:50]
def format_item_display(self, item):
return u"<span class='tag'>%s</span>" % item.nameAdd field to a form:
# yourapp/forms.py
from ajax_select.fields import AutoCompleteSelectMultipleField
class DocumentForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Document
tags = AutoCompleteSelectMultipleField('tags')This will now work in the Django Admin.
To use a form outside, be sure to include form.media on the template where you place the form:
{{ form.media }}
{{ form }}Read the full documention here: outside of the admin
- Customize search query
- Query other resources besides Django ORM
- Format results with HTML
- Customize styling
- Customize security policy
- Add additional custom UI alongside widget
- Integrate with other UI elements elsewhere on the page using the javascript API
- Works in Admin as well as in normal views
- //ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js'
- //code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js
- //code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css
- Django >=2.2
- Python >=3.6
Many thanks to all contributors and pull requesters !
https://github.com/crucialfelix/django-ajax-selects/graphs/contributors/
Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses: