My Models has a FK to translations and also a many 2 many to categories which also them are translated With this code I concatenate the translation of the categories and allow the changelist to order them. works only on mysql but you can adapt to your DB SET SESSION is required by mysql.
This is an example on how to create a custom advanced search (like the google advanced search page) in the admin app instead of the basic search field. you need to override 2 template of the admin so in your templates/admin folder copy the html files from the original admin app as follow: change_list.html: add the name of the module of the templatetag at the top where there is the load command from: {% load adminmedia admin_list i18n %} to: {% load adminmedia admin_list custom_search_form i18n %} and on line 87 (circa) you need to load our custom template tag something like: {% block search %}{% advanced_search_form cl %}{% endblock %} search_form.html: put your form inside the <form> tags with {{asf}} should be enough (I have also removed cl.value from the input text field because would be to complex to reload form values too ) probably would be better to create 2 new clean template and extend them but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader :) many thanks to [Peter Baumgartner to get me in the right direction after his post](http://lincolnloop.com/blog/2011/jan/11/custom-filters-django-admin/) Currently ordering in the admin panel doesn't work if you find a way to get it work please write a comment
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