From 9afddbe42247b14f98ab4eb8697c3df0ad984ed2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:01:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- docs/model-api.txt | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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