djangomni-search 0.2.0

Quick search anything in Django Admin from a single place

djangomni-search

Django Admin Site extension, that allows searching all entities from single field

Installation

Please read the instructions carefully, extending Django Admin on this level can go wrong very easily.

1. Pip your deps

Basically, install the dependency. You can use poetry, or any other package manager.

pip install djangomni-search

2. Put djangomni_search into INSTALLED_APPS

It is important to put it on the top.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'djangomni_search',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    '...',
]

3. Configure Admin Site

Now you will need to configure your Admin Site(s) to inherit from djangomni_search.admin.OmniSearchAdminSite. If you're using the default AdminSite, you must create a custom one.

class SiteAdmin(OmniSearchAdminSite, AdminSite):
    ...

4. Extend your custom base_site.html

If you do not have a custom base_site.html, it should already work. In case you have done some customizations to your base site file, you will need to add one script to all pages in admin. This can be only done by extending the base template.

{% block extrahead %}
{% if omni_search %}
  <link
    href="{% static 'djangomni-search/main.css' %}"
    rel="stylesheet"
    type="text/css"
  />
  <script
    data-config="{{omni_search}}"
    id="djangomni-search"
    src="{% static 'djangomni-search/main.js' %}"
  ></script>
{% endif %}
{% endblock %}

5. Configure autocomplete

The Omni Search looks for data using the autocomplete_fields attribute of ModelAdmin. Configure it for all the models, that you want to search.