Commit 3309c394 authored by Russell Keith-Magee's avatar Russell Keith-Magee
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[1.2.X] Fixed #7284 -- Provided an example for the use of the search_fields... 

[1.2.X] Fixed #7284 -- Provided an example for the use of the search_fields clause on ModelAdmin. Thanks to rbell01824@earthlink.net for the suggestion, and Simon Meers for the initial patch.

Backport of r13542 from trunk.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.2.X@13544 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt

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    search_fields = ['foreign_key__related_fieldname']



For example, if you have a blog entry with an author, the following definition

would enable search blog entries by the email address of the author::



    search_fields = ['user__email']



When somebody does a search in the admin search box, Django splits the search

query into words and returns all objects that contain each of the words, case

insensitive, where each word must be in at least one of ``search_fields``. For