I'm developing a Django application in which a lot of models have foreign keys and m2m relationships. This results in many ModelChoiceField being displayed in the Django admin for my models. To make model choice more bearable, I installed the django-select2 app in my project.
I have been trying to implement select2 in the inline forms the admin site displays when editing related objects, but the form doesn't render the ModelSelect2Widget (it renders a simple select; it doesn't even include the select2 library).
What I tried was creating a ModelForm in forms.py overriding the relevant fields widgets, then, using inlineformset_factory, had a variable holding the factory class. Lastly, in admin.py, added my custom inline formset using the formset property of the InlineModelAdmin class.
forms.py
class FichaTecnicaForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = models.FichaTecnica
exclude = ('pelicula',)
widgets = {
'responsable': ModelSelect2Widget,
'cargo': ModelSelect2Widget,
'pais': ModelSelect2Widget
}
FichaTecnicaInline = inlineformset_factory(models.Pelicula, models.FichaTecnica, form=FichaTecnicaForm)
admin.py
class FichaTecnicaInline(admin.TabularInline):
model = models.FichaTecnica
formset = forms.FichaTecnicaInline
extra = 0
# Some other code here
# This is where the inlines are invoked
class PeliculaAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
inlines = [
FichaTecnicaInline,
# some other inlines, not relevant...
]
I was expecting that the inline form set would display the select2 widget for the model choice, but instead it displays a standard select widget.
Thank you very much in advance for you help!
