Links to FKs in Admin (proposal)

[Vlada Macek]

I frequently miss the admin ability to automatically link to change_forms of objects referenced by FKs:

Currently when a ForeignKey field is in list_display, the target's __unicode__ is called and displayed in the cell. Why not to as well make it a link to the target's change_form provided it has ModelAdmin registered and the user has the permissions?

Can be controlled by some new attribute of ModelAdmin, say foreign_key_links as the tuple of such fields.

Yes, I can currently simulate that by creating a model method for each foreign key returning <a> with allow_tags=True and replace the FK field in list_display, but these fields are second grade citizens:

• cannot be ordered by
• cannot be filtered upon
• defining them is tedious
• the quickiest dirty way is to hardcode the target URL to <a>

Sorry if it's duplicate or the feature is already in. Was unable to find it.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Duplicate of #7028

[dschruth]

I don't think this should have been closed. Seems like these two tickets are slightly different. What about adding a simple link (no pop-ups) just above the 'select' tag, which would link to the change_form? I'm envisioning similar functionality to what happens with the ImageField and the FileField in the admin interface.

[James Bennett]

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