Admin site dropdown ordering for ForeignKey doesn't work as expected

[Leo Shklovskii]

In the case of:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class Foo(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User)

When the admin page for Foo is rendered, the select dropdown to choose users has them sorted by id, despite the fact that the UserAdmin class has:

    ordering = ('username',)

I can get around this for my own models by setting ordering on the model itself but I don't want to modify or extend the existing User model and it seems reasonable for the admin site to respect the default ordering as specified in the ModelAdmin class.

[Alex Gaynor]

You can change the ordering by overiding formfield_for_foreignkey on the ModelAdmin in django trunk.

[Leo Shklovskii]

Thanks Adam, that's a great workaround, but are you also making the design decision that the ordering specified in the admin class shouldn't apply by default? That seems a little strange.

[Leo Shklovskii]

Er, I meant Alex, sorry about that.

[Alex Gaynor]

No, there is no precedent anywhere in the admin for a different ModelAdmin controlling something in one ModelAdmin. It uses the default ordering on the related model by default.