Admin Search Plus

Admin Search Plus is a AdminMixin for Django that limits searches to specific fields which greatly enhances performance when working on large datasets.

Installation

$ pip install admin-search-plus

Usage

1. Add admin_search_plus to your INSTALLED_APPS before django.contrib.admin:

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       'admin_search_plus',
       ...
       'django.contrib.admin',
       'django.contrib.auth',
       'django.contrib.contenttypes',
       'django.contrib.sessions',
       'django.contrib.messages',
       'django.contrib.staticfiles',
   ]
   

2. In admin.py import AdminSearchPlusMixin to add search functions to ModelAdmin.

   from admin_search_plus import AdminSearchPlusMixin
   
   class YourModelAdmin(AdminSearchPlusMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
       search_fields = ['field_1', 'field_2', 'field_3']
   
   admin.site.register(YourModel, YourModelAdmin)