Version

0.1.0

Overview

django-chosen-ajax implements the chosen javascript library into the django admin for select form elements. It also implements ajax autocomplete functionality for form fields which have large numbers of related objects. The library currently uses jquery and was inspired by django-chosen and chosen-ajax.

Features

• Integrates chosen into the admin
• Implements ajax functionality for ModelMultipleChoiceField's

Install

Install with pip

pip install git+https://github.com/epicowl/django-chosen-ajax.git#egg=django-chosen-ajax

Add chosen to your INSTALLED_APPS

Run collectstatic

Compatibility

django-chosen-ajax has been tested with

Django

1.4, 1.5

Python

2.7

Database

PostgreSQL

Usage

Subclass the ChosenAdminForm using the ChosenAjaxField for ajax fields and include the required search_fields=('field',) where field is the name of a database field to use for the search lookup.

from chosen.forms import ChosenAdminForm
from chosen.fields import ChosenAjaxField


class PonyForm(ChosenAdminForm):
    ponies = ChosenAjaxField(
        required=False, 
        queryset=Pony.objects.all(), 
        search_fields=('name', 'breed',)
    )

    class Meta:
        model = YourModel

Currently you will also have to add the admin site to your ModelAdmin to make the green add related button work.

from django.contrib import admin
from ponyapp.forms import PonyForm


class PonyAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    form = PonyForm

    def __init__(self, model, admin_site):
        super(PonyAdmin, self).__init__(model, admin_site)
        self.form.admin_site = admin_site

You can add as many fields to search_fields as you need, they get combined into a lookup. Everything else is automatic and handled in the ChosenAdminForm.

Hit me up if you have questions or want to contribute!