search_fields = ['question_text'] from Tutorial07 not working.

[Patrick Kyne]

Following the django tutorial from the beginning, everything works as it should except the Search Fields example in Tutorial 07.

Following the tutorial, my polls/admin.py appears below. However, no search field appears in Google Chrome or in Firefox. No error is thrown by the django server either. I did not find any relevant google responses to the issue, nor did I find it here in Trac.

## polls/admin.py:
from django.contrib import admin

# Register your models here.

from .models import Question, Choice

class ChoiceInline(admin.TabularInline):
    model = Choice
    extra = 3


class QuestionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fieldsets = [
        (None,               {'fields': ['question_text']}),
        ('Date information', {'fields': ['pub_date'], 'classes': ['collapse']}),
    ]
    inlines = [ChoiceInline]

    list_display = ('question_text', 'pub_date', 'was_published_recently')

    list_filter = ['pub_date']

    search_fields = ['question_text']

admin.site.register(Question, QuestionAdmin)

System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
October 16, 2017 - 15:36:08
Django version 1.11.5, using settings 'mysite.settings'
Starting development server at ​http://127.0.0.1:8000/

{140}$ python
Python 3.6.2 (default, Aug 03 2017, 16:34:42) [GCC] on linux

[Patrick Kyne]

Chrome example

[Patrick Kyne]

I've tested it with both the search_fields as:

search_fields = ['question_text']

-and-

search_fields = ['question_text', 'pub_date']

to see if there were any difference or error thrown. No difference. No search field is displayed, and no error is thrown.

[Patrick Kyne]

For the search_field to show up in the Admin website, all that was needed was to stop (Ctrl-C) and restart the django test server. Then the search field shows up as desired.

Perhaps the documentation should be updated to state this.

[Patrick Kyne]

For the Search box to appear on the Admin website (and the search_fields to function) a stop and restart of the django test server was required.

 (Ctrl-C) 

? python manage.py runserver

After that, the search box appeared and functioned as desired.

Perhaps the on-line tutorial should be updated to reflect this.

--Closing