Helper for Many-to-Many Form

Question

If you have a ManyToManyField with few entries, the Django Admin interface is good.

But if there are a lot of rows, you can't display all as HTML select-Input.

I dream of a django FormField which gives me two ways for the input.

Example: Edit the groups of a user (imagine that there thousands of groups)

• autocomplete: search some attributes of the other model (in this case Group).
• PopUp with search form: Create a search form and choose some of the matching lines.

I think this could be implemented with in a generic way, so that you can use this Field without much coding.

Answer 1

A good place to start is using the raw_id_fields option on your admin definitions. There is no huge HTML list being passed to the browser and it has a pop-up search for adding an objects.