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Customize the template for autocomplete lookups.

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django-grappelli-custom-autocomplete
=======================

This library gives you the ability to customize the display of the grappelli FK / M2M autocomplete lookup.

Customize the dropdown contents and preview contents in an FK Autocomplete:
![Screenshot of custom FK lookup](/../master/docs/screenshots/fk_selection.png?raw=true "Screenshot of custom FK lookup")

Customize the dropdown contents and preview contents in an M2M Autocomplete:
![Screenshot of custom M2M lookup](/../master/docs/screenshots/m2m_selection.png?raw=true "Screenshot of custom M2M lookup")

Improved UX for deletion on M2M:
![Better M2M delete display](/../master/docs/screenshots/delete_ux.png?raw=true "Screenshot of M2M delete")

Requirements
=====
Requires Django and django-grappelli

Installation
=====
1. pip install django-grappelli-custom-autocomplete
2. Add 'django_grappelli_custom_autocomplete' to your INSTALLED_APPS list in your project's settings.py
3. Add to custom urls to urls.py: url(r'^grappelli_custom_autocomplete/', include('django_grappelli_custom_autocomplete.urls')),

Usage
=====
```python

#models.py
class Image( BaseImage ):

#...Your fields here...


"""
1. Define the following three functions on the model to return custom
autocomplete markup:
"""
def custom_related_dropdown_label(self):
#This is the HTML that gets used in the dropdown selector.
return "%s<br /><img src='%s' width='100' />" % (self.title, self.thumbnail.url)


def custom_related_fk_selected_display(self):
#This is the HTML that gets inserted next to the FK selector to
return "<img src='%s' width='100' />" % (self.thumbnail.url)

def custom_related_m2m_selected_display(self):
#This is the HTML that gets used in the M2M list
return "<img src='%s' height='35' /> %s " % (self.thumbnail.url, self.title)

#admin.py
from django_grappelli_custom_autocomplete.admin import CustomAutocompleteMixin, CustomAutocompleteTabularMixin

class PageAdmin(CustomAutocompleteMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
"""
2. Add the admin mixin "CustomAutocompleteMixin" to your admin class.
3. Define "custom_autocomplete_lookup_fields" as you would with the
"autocomplete_lookup_fields."
"""

fields = ['title', 'thumbnail', 'slides']
raw_id_fields = ['thumbnail', 'slides']
custom_autocomplete_lookup_fields = {
'fk':['thumbnail'],
'm2m': ['slides']
}

class SlideInlineAdmin(CustomAutocompleteTabularMixin, admin.TabularInline):

fields = ['title', 'thumbnail', 'slides']
raw_id_fields = ['thumbnail', 'slides']
custom_autocomplete_lookup_fields = {
'fk':['thumbnail'],
'm2m': ['slides']
}

```

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