Edit ForeignKey, ManyToManyField and CharField in Django Admin using jQuery UI AutoComplete

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Documentation

http://django-ajax-selects.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Installation

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)

Quick Usage

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.name

Add 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

Fully customizable

• 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

Assets included by default

• //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

Compatibility

• Django >=2.2
• Python >=3.6

Contributors

Many thanks to all contributors and pull requesters !

https://github.com/crucialfelix/django-ajax-selects/graphs/contributors/

License

Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses:

• http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php/
• http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html/