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| author | Adrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com> | 2007-01-23 02:01:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Adrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com> | 2007-01-23 02:01:20 +0000 |
| commit | 9afddbe42247b14f98ab4eb8697c3df0ad984ed2 (patch) | |
| tree | 75752f588c32e7b589e48760fa6447b580445614 | |
| parent | 2e042f33e319bb5c4ea48b24f2520df29d30a886 (diff) | |
Fixed #3346 -- Documented that search_fields Admin option can use related models. Thanks for the patch, Robert Myers and Gary Wilson
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@4392 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/model-api.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/model-api.txt b/docs/model-api.txt index 603c131662..33742220a3 100644 --- a/docs/model-api.txt +++ b/docs/model-api.txt @@ -1408,7 +1408,10 @@ This should be set to a list of field names that will be searched whenever somebody submits a search query in that text box. These fields should be some kind of text field, such as ``CharField`` or -``TextField``. +``TextField``. You can also perform a related lookup on a ``ForeignKey`` with +the lookup API "follow" notation:: + + search_fields = ['foreign_key__related_fieldname'] When somebody does a search in the admin search box, Django splits the search query into words and returns all objects that contain each of the words, case |