Snippets by JulieGoldberg

Grouped Model Choice Field

This class lets me have a model choice field that includes optgroups . Django has built-in support for optgroups if you explicitly set all the choices in a ChoiceField, but that doesn't help with ModelChoiceFields. Optgroups let you have nice-looking subscategories in huge dropdowns. They're even more useful if you're using something like selectize.js, because you have a ton of options. If you inherit from GroupedModelChoiceField and override the optgroup_from_instance function, as in SampleChoiceField, you'll get a dropdown with your models with the expected optgroup tags in the html. Be sure to have your queryset first order by whatever you're displaying in optgroup.