Filtering foreignkey fields in django admin

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class MyAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    def get_form(self, request, obj=None, **kwargs):
        form = super(MyAdmin,self).get_form(self,request, obj,**kwargs)
        # form class is created per request by modelform_factory function
        # so it's safe to modify
        #we modify the the queryset
        form.base_fields['foreign_key_field].queryset = form.base_fields['foreign_key_field].queryset.filter(user=request.user)
        return form

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Comments

jheasly (on January 13, 2010):

For those unaware of formfield_for_foreignkey (as I was when I came upon this snippet), the docs are here.

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