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14370	Adding support for Autocomplete in contrib.admin	Germano Gabbianelli	Johannes Maron	"I've tried to implement Autocomplete for contrib.admin using jQuery UI Autocomplete.[[BR]]
Here's the code: http://bitbucket.org/tyrion/django [[BR]]
Here's a live demo: http://djangoac.tyrion.mx/admin/ (login with test/test).
(It supports both ForeignKey and ManyToMany).

I don't know if I should attach the complete patch here. It's kinda big (I included jquery-ui), however you can see it online at http://bitbucket.org/tyrion/django/changeset/04488ec05e92 ).

Now it's implemented using an ""autocomplete_fields"" attribute which is a dict (field:related_fields):
{{{
#!python
class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    autocomplete_fields = {'user': ('username', 'email')}

}}}
 
But because I've been asked:
{{{
<jezdez> tyrion-mx: what about making the autocomplete_fields a dict of dicts, to be able to specify additional options for the autocompletion, e.g. number of search results or a custom label function?
}}}
I've written this patch (for my code) http://dpaste.com/hold/251220/
that let's you control the ""value"" (what is displayed in the input), ""label"" (what is displayed in the dropdown) and ""limit"" (max number of results) properties.

With it a modeladmin could look something like this:
{{{
#!python
class DummyAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    autocomplete_fields = dict(
        user1 = dict(
            fields = ('username', 'email'),
            value = 'username',
            limit = 10,
        ),
        friends = dict(
            fields = ('username', 'email'),
            label = u'%(first_name)s %(last_name)s',
            value = 'email',
        ),
    )
}}}

In that case ""value"" and ""label"" can be either a function, a fieldname or a string like `u'%(username)s ""%(email)s""'`.

"	New feature	closed	contrib.admin	dev	Normal	fixed	autocomplete, jquery, javascript, widgets, admin	Yeago Germano Gabbianelli sehmaschine@… istruble thomas.schwaerzl@… thijs.triemstra@… hv@… 4glitch@… cmawebsite@… ramezashraf@… info@… James Pic zachborboa@… tymoteusz.jankowski@… tymoteusz.jankowski@… Kevin Brown	Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	1