Yes this sounds like it's worth documenting. Perhaps there could even be a hint in the UI. In my experience admin "power users" end up discovering this feature by accident.
On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 at 19:24, Silvio <silviogutier...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently removed a filter from an admin change list view, but refreshed > the page and to my surprise: the filter still worked! > > I thought I stumbled upon a bug, but upon closer inspection, this is the > correct behavior. That is, by default, the Django admin allows you to > filter pretty much on any field in the model. Possibly even related fields > too. The filters on the right are just UX conveniences. > > I hold no strong opinion on whether this is a good idea or not. It's > certainly convenient for craftier users. But I think we could do a better > job documenting this. The *only* mention I could find on this is > ModelAdmin.lookup_allowed here: > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.lookup_allowed > > This sort of hints at the feature, and that you could turn it off by > overriding etc. But there's no other mention of it on the page. > > Should we make it clearer? > > Thank you all. Been using Django for 12 years and never been happier. > > Best, > > Silvio > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/5065d98e-1944-4336-9206-00b602e27a4an%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/5065d98e-1944-4336-9206-00b602e27a4an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Adam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAMyDDM11o1y0fDXK5cViYoGTytTqRyC1iZJOMPh7uC6wjvi%3D0Q%40mail.gmail.com.
