django-admin-reversefields

Manage reverse ForeignKey / OneToOne relationships from the parent change form in Django admin.

django-admin-reversefields adds parent-side selector fields (single or multi-select) that stay in sync with the child rows on save — without hand-rolling custom forms, querysets, or save logic.

Quickstart · Recipes · Caveats

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Why

Django admin gives you inlines for reverse relations. They’re great for creating or editing related rows, but they don’t give you a simple selector to attach existing child objects to a parent from the parent form.

When you implement this yourself, you usually repeat the same plumbing:

• form field + widget wiring
• queryset filtering
• initial value population
• unbind / bind save logic
• transaction handling

This package turns that pattern into a reusable mixin + config.

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What it does

You have a parent model (Organization / Company / Tenant) and a child model (Site / Department / Project) where the child has a ForeignKey to the parent.

This package adds virtual fields to the parent admin form so you can select which existing child rows belong to the parent. On save, it synchronizes the child rows’ foreign keys to match the selection.

Supports:

• single-select or multi-select
• choice filtering (example: “unassigned or already assigned to this parent”)
• transactional synchronization on save

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Install

pip install django-admin-reversefields

Supported versions:

• Django: 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2
• Python: 3.10–3.13

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Quickstart

Example: assign Site rows to an Organization from the Organization admin page.

from django.contrib import admin
from django_admin_reversefields.mixins import ReverseRelationAdminMixin, ReverseRelationConfig

@admin.register(Organization)
class OrganizationAdmin(ReverseRelationAdminMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
    reverse_relations = {
        "sites": ReverseRelationConfig(
            model=Site,
            fk_field="organization",
            multiple=True,
            limit_choices_to=unbound_or_current,  # optional
        ),
    }

    fieldsets = (
        ("Details", {"fields": ("name",)}),
        ("Sites", {"fields": ("sites",)}),
    )

Include each virtual field name in fieldsets (or fields). When you save the parent, the mixin updates the child rows’ foreign keys to match the current selection.

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Development

This project uses uv for local tooling.

Setup:

uv sync

Common commands:

uv run ruff check .
uv run django-admin test
uv run sphinx-build -b html docs docs/_build/html -W

Run the demo/test app:

export DJANGO_DB_NAME=db.sqlite3
uv run python manage.py migrate
uv run python manage.py seed
uv run python manage.py runserver

Log in at /admin/ with admin / admin and edit a company to see the reverse fields.

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Release

uv build
twine upload dist/*

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License

See LICENSE