From bafe9fdef2060f315a6b37f8eeffc1af1492c565 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russell Keith-Magee Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 07:57:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #7284 -- Provided an example for the use of the search_fields clause on ModelAdmin. Thanks to rbell01824@earthlink.net for the suggestion, and Simon Meers for the initial patch. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@13542 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt index 4d84dfafbc..d527b30ced 100644 --- a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt +++ b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt @@ -600,6 +600,11 @@ the lookup API "follow" notation:: search_fields = ['foreign_key__related_fieldname'] +For example, if you have a blog entry with an author, the following definition +would enable search blog entries by the email address of the author:: + + search_fields = ['user__email'] + 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 insensitive, where each word must be in at least one of ``search_fields``. For