In the Django admin, how can I set up searching profiles by username?

Question

Heyas

I'd like to be able to search user profiles by username in the django admin. Essentially, in admin.py, I'd be doing something like:

class UserProfileAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
   search_fields = ['username']

but this wont work since user is a foreign key in the my usual user profile set up.

Is there a quick way to achieve this without having to add a username field to my UserProfile model?

Thanks

Answer 1

This should do what you want:

class UserProfileAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    search_fields = ['user__username']

assuming the name of your field that is foreignkey is user