id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 9994 list_filter ignores to_field Jason Zylks Malcolm Tredinnick "When using the to_field option in a foreign key field, and then filtering on that field in the admin interface, the filter attempts to match the primary key with the values taken from the to_field. For Example: {{{ class Department(models.Model): code = models.CharField(max_length=4, unique=True) description = models.CharField(max_length=50, blank=True, null=True) class Employee(models.Model): department = models.ForeignKey(Department, to_field=""code"") name = models.CharField(max_length=100) ... class EmployeeAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): list_display = ['name', 'department'] list_filter = ['department'] ... }}} Suppose there is a department, 'FINC' with id 1; the filter that is generated is {{{department__id__exact=FINC}}} rather than {{{department__code__exact=FINC}}} or {{{department__id__exact=1}}}. " Uncategorized closed contrib.admin 1.0 Normal fixed Accepted 0 0 0 0 0 0