admin foreignkey dropdown does not adhere to model's admin ordering

[Gary Wilson]

This doesn't set ordering in the dropdown (but I would expect it to):

class Admin:
    ordering = ('last_name',)

Meta ordering, however, does work:

class Meta:
    ordering = ('last_name',)

[Honza Král]

Marking it as someday. It is quite a tricky thing to inside newforms-admin and we need to wait for the code to mature a bit.

[Brillgen Developers]

As a simpler and more flexible fix, would it be better if we had a field called let's say related_ordering = { 'fk_field_name': 'order_field' } ...this would allow diff. models to have diff order in FK drop down. I can contribute this patch if this direction gets blessed.

[anonymous]

Wouldn't it be extremely simple to add an admin field called let's say

related_ordering = {'field_name': 'order_field'}

in the admin model in which the foreign key is instead of looking it up from the admin of the foreign key model?

That should make this a much simpler implementation while having flexibility to have different order in different model admins which have the foreign key to the same model but need different order in drop down.

[anonymous]

Changing stage to get this direction of coding blessed by the community...want to avoid working on a patch if the design itself is not ok with everyone...

[Brillgen Developers]

Taking responsibility for this suggestion (by being logged in while commenting ;) :

Wouldn't it be extremely simple to add an admin field called let's say

related_ordering = {'field_name': 'order_field'}

in the admin model in which the foreign key is instead of looking it up from the admin of the foreign key model?

That should make this a much simpler implementation while having flexibility to have different order in different model admins which have the foreign key to the same model but need different order in drop down.

[Julien Phalip]

#16641 is a duplicate.

[Carl Meyer]

The original report here is correct, the ModelAdmin ordering should take precedence if set, even for related-field dropdowns. We don't need to add additional complexity in the form of new options specifically for related fields; customization at that level is already possible by overriding methods on the ModelAdmin of the model with the FK.

[fisadev]

Proposed implementation on pull request 806:

​https://github.com/django/django/pull/806

[fisadev]

(pull request done as part of #sprints-django-ar :)

[Ramiro Morales <cramm0@…>]

In d9330d5be2ee60b208dcab2616eb164ea2e6bf36:

Fixed #6585 -- Admin relationship widgets: Respect ordering defined by target model's ModelAdmin.

Thanks Gary Wilson for the report and Juan Pedro Fisanotti, Carlos
Matías de la Torre for the fix.