Hi!

Is there a specific reason when release from 1.4.0 on do not have Git release tags in here any more? Do you have local tags that you didn't push? Would you welcome help finding the releated commits to create the missings tags?

Best, Sebastian

I have configured django easy select according to document, it's working fine but when I add new item to foreign key field it's actually selected but it isn't displayed in UI that whatanelement selected. after adding new element from pop up any element I choose it will only display None.

For many to many field it doesn't add item.

python==3.5.2
Django==2.0.2
django-easy-select2==1.3.4

For now I have to either refresh page or press save and continue editing so that I can add/select item(s) after newly added item.

Hi,
Easy Select 2 does not seem to be working with 1.11(the latest release). The last known release to work on is 1.10.7

Attached is the screenshot of the error.

Does it support django1.10 and later?

After I run python manage.py migrate (the docs still say syncdb), then I use:

python manage.py runserver 

But no admin is available and the project does not show up on the root either?

I have more than 10,000 rows in current table to be select.

how to deal with this problem

Django version 1.11.13
django-easy-select2 1.5.3

The fields of an existing row of a TabularInline work with select2,
if I click "Add another", the fields of the new row are not select2:

Ideas?

The files included by using the widgets are downloaded as text/html and but they are included as application/javascript.
If you're including a no-sniff header on all your pages you get an error like the following:

The resource from “https://192.168.60.201/site_media/easy_select2/js/easy_select2.js” was blocked due to MIME type (“text/html”) mismatch (X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff).
So questions:
Why are these files being downloaded by the brower as text/html, when they are being included like:

Is there any way to override how they are being included?

Hi

How to filter field list depending on value of other field?

I upgraded Django to 4.0 and I'm getting an error:

  File "easy_select2/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from easy_select2.utils import select2_modelform_meta, select2_modelform, \
  File "easy_select2/utils.py", line 5, in <module>
    from easy_select2 import forms as es2_forms
  File "easy_select2/forms.py", line 5, in <module>
    from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
ImportError: cannot import name 'ugettext_lazy' from 'django.utils.translation' (django/utils/translation/__init__.py)

We need to change ugettext_lazy to gettext_lazy

Forms created with select2_modelform() throw a "RemovedInDjango18Warning: Creating a ModelForm without either the 'fields' attribute or the 'exclude' attribute is deprecated" (Django 1.7).

A minor change like this seems to solve the warning:

meta_fields.update({'model': model, 'widgets': widgets, 'exclude': []})

(in https://github.com/asyncee/django-easy-select2/blob/master/easy_select2/utils.py#L31)

I have a issue: ImportError: cannot import name 'ugettext' from 'django.utils.translation'

EVN django 1.11.7
class Form(forms.Form):
field = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=qs, widget=Select2Multiple(
select2attrs={'width': 'auto'}
))

should be

class Form(forms.Form):
field = forms.ModelMultipleChoiceField(queryset=qs, widget=Select2Multiple(
select2attrs={'width': 'auto'}
))

Your app is not listed on this site yet:

https://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/auto-complete/

Would be nice if it would.

Hi. I installed the latest version of django-easy-select2 with pip on Django 4.0.3. When I use it on a model form like below, nothing happens, although the element is rendered to the HTML (image).

class MyForm(forms.ModelForm):
    myfield = forms.ModelMultipleChoiceField(widget=Select2Multiple(select2attrs={'width': 'auto'})

Any fix on this?

https://github.com/asyncee/django-easy-select2/blob/master/easy_select2/static/easy_select2/js/easy_select2.js#L114

django.jQuery not exists.

When used with django parler,
Below is returned

Unknown field(s) (title, canonical_url, summary) specified

Any workaround?

After adding 'easy_select2' to installed apps I am not able to run the python manage.py dumpdata command anymore.

It says:
CommandError: Unable to serialize database: no such table: easy_select2_related

if I run it with traceback I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/zoli/projects/test_de2/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 64, in execute
    return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
  File "/home/zoli/projects/test_de2/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py", line 323, in execute
    return Database.Cursor.execute(self, query, params)
sqlite3.OperationalError: no such table: easy_select2_related

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./manage.py", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/home/zoli/projects/test_de2/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 353, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/home/zoli/projects/test_de2/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 345, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/home/zoli/projects/test_de2/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 348, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
  File "/home/zoli/projects/test_de2/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 399, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/home/zoli/projects/test_de2/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/dumpdata.py", line 167, in handle
    object_count=object_count)
  File "/home/zoli/projects/test_de2/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/serializers/__init__.py", line 129, in serialize
    s.serialize(queryset, **options)
  File "/home/zoli/projects/test_de2/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/serializers/base.py", line 79, in serialize
    for count, obj in enumerate(queryset, start=1):
  File "/home/zoli/projects/test_de2/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/dumpdata.py", line 150, in get_objects
    for obj in queryset.iterator():
  File "/home/zoli/projects/test_de2/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 52, in __iter__
    results = compiler.execute_sql()
  File "/home/zoli/projects/test_de2/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py", line 848, in execute_sql
    cursor.execute(sql, params)
  File "/home/zoli/projects/test_de2/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 79, in execute
    return super(CursorDebugWrapper, self).execute(sql, params)
  File "/home/zoli/projects/test_de2/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 64, in execute
    return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
  File "/home/zoli/projects/test_de2/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 95, in __exit__
    six.reraise(dj_exc_type, dj_exc_value, traceback)
  File "/home/zoli/projects/test_de2/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/utils/six.py", line 685, in reraise
    raise value.with_traceback(tb)
  File "/home/zoli/projects/test_de2/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 64, in execute
    return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
  File "/home/zoli/projects/test_de2/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py", line 323, in execute
    return Database.Cursor.execute(self, query, params)
django.db.utils.OperationalError: no such table: easy_select2_related

Python version: Python 3.5.1+
Installed packages:

Django==1.9.7
django-easy-select2==1.3.2
pkg-resources==0.0.0

This app has models.py but no migrations so I tried to makemigrations and run them but it didn't help.

Hey,

I started the demo app according to the guidelines and wanted to test the addition of Moods. Did not work: Entering texts, adn pressing RET did nothing. Saving did not help either. Am I doing sth wrong, or is it broken?

$ pip freeze
Django==1.7
argparse==1.2.1
-e git+https://github.com/asyncee/django-easy-select2.git@9472163506cd906a7a2219099f45473f41f902a5#egg=django_easy_select2-origin/develop
wsgiref==0.1.2

Cheers,
murat

At least for TabularInline

This is a brilliant app, thank you for building it and sharing it.

I'm struggling to make it work alongside django-sortableadmin. In particular, I'm attempting to use a SortableTabularInline that also uses easy-select2.

I've experimented with setting SELECT2_USE_BUNDLED_JQUERY = False, thinking perhaps there's a JS conflict of some sort, but that didn't seem to help. =/

Any ideas?

How can I write a custom html to output options?

In the sample application, while creating a new Note I can create a new Category (clicking in the plus sign next to the select). The new category is created correctly, and I can see in the database, the select for the categories is not updated until reload of the page.

If I save the new Note inmediately after the Category is created (without reloading the page), then the Note has the category created.

Hi,

Not sure if I am asking the right thing here, but could you please share an example
of saving a list coming from django-easy-select2 in PostgreSQL array field ?

In other words, is Django ArrayField supported ?

I just noticed the included version appears to be pinned to 4.0.0, which was released about 5 years ago. Looking through the code, there shouldn't be anything breaking when doing this change and it will fix a lot of accessibility and browser compatibility issues that have been spotted over the years.

Hi,

I use your package and I want to have my static files cached but when I have no static files collected, empty cache and DEBUG set to False I end up with such exception using any of manage.py commands:

$ python manage.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/somewhere/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 354, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/somewhere/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 328, in execute
    django.setup()
  File "/somewhere/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 18, in setup
    apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
  File "/somewhere/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 85, in populate
    app_config = AppConfig.create(entry)
  File "/somewhere/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/apps/config.py", line 86, in create
    module = import_module(entry)
  File "/somewhere/lib/python3.4/importlib/__init__.py", line 109, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2254, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2237, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2226, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1200, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1129, in _exec
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1471, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 321, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/somewhere/lib/python3.4/site-packages/easy_select2/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from easy_select2.utils import (
  File "/somewhere/lib/python3.4/site-packages/easy_select2/utils.py", line 7, in <module>
    from easy_select2.widgets import Select2Mixin, Select2, Select2Multiple
  File "/somewhere/lib/python3.4/site-packages/easy_select2/widgets.py", line 32, in <module>
    static('easy_select2/js/init.js'),
  File "/somewhere/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/storage.py", line 131, in url
    hashed_name = self.stored_name(clean_name)
  File "/somewhere/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/storage.py", line 280, in stored_name
    cache_name = self.clean_name(self.hashed_name(name))
  File "/somewhere/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/storage.py", line 94, in hashed_name
    (clean_name, self))
ValueError: The file 'easy_select2/js/init.js' could not be found with <django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.CachedStaticFilesStorage object at 0x000000000000>.

My workaround is to set DEBUG to True, run python manage.py collectstatic, set it back to False. I use Django 1.8.8 and django-easy-select 1.3.1.

This works:

DEBUG = True
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.CachedStaticFilesStorage'

or

DEBUG = False
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage'  # default

This doesn't:

DEBUG = False
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.CachedStaticFilesStorage'

Running python manage.py collectstatic with CachedStaticFilesStorage to collect static files requires static files to be already collected 😄 as opposed to default StaticFilesStorage.

I have this weird script order, jquery loads , jquery-ui registers itself, jquery.init.js where jQuery name space is cleared and moved to django.jQuery.

• Now, easy-select2 loads, no jQuery so fills it with django.jQuery and stored $ and _djq, both pointing to django.jQuery and remains that way due to closure.
• Next tinymce's jQuery loads replaces jQuery namespace.
• Next select2 load and register to the newly created jQuery namespace.
• easy-select js nows tries to call select2 since it remembers only django.jQuery instance (due to closure) a error is thrown stating there is no function select2

<script type="text/javascript" src="/admin/jsi18n/"></script>
<link href="/static/tabbed_admin/css/jquery-ui-1.11.4.min.css" type="text/css" media="all" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="/static/tabbed_admin/css/tabbed_admin.css" type="text/css" media="all" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="/static/easy_select2/vendor/select2/css/select2.min.css" type="text/css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="/static/easy_select2/css/easy_select2.css" type="text/css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet">
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/admin/js/vendor/jquery/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/tabbed_admin/js/jquery-ui-1.11.4.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/easy_select2/js/init.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/admin/js/jquery.init.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/easy_select2/js/easy_select2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/django_tinymce/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/admin/js/core.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/easy_select2/vendor/select2/js/select2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/django_tinymce/init_tinymce.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/admin/js/admin/RelatedObjectLookups.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/admin/js/actions.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/admin/js/urlify.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/admin/js/prepopulate.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/admin/js/vendor/xregexp/xregexp.js"></script>

Hi!

I would like to use the bootstrap4 theme for Select2. The way to activate it would be:

$('select').select2({
    theme: 'bootstrap4',
});

To make that work with django-easy-select2 it seems I would need to pass theme: 'bootstrap4' here:

If that's right, I wonder how to best bypass just easy_select2/js/init.js as a user and load a custom copy. Any thoughts? Would a PR adding a new setting work?

Best, Sebastian

hi!
i use django 2.2.5 and django-easy-select2 1.5.6
i have two problem

1. raw_id_fields not working by select2_modelform
2. fields or exclude in custome form not working by select2_modelform

for example:

class PageUpdateAdminForm(forms.ModelForm):
	class Meta:
		model = Page
		exclude = ('site', 'type')

@admin.register(Page)
class PageAdmin(AdminViewMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
	form = select2_modelform(Page, form_class=PageUpdateAdminForm)
	raw_id_fields = ('user',)

the user field is showing by select2 and the exclude fields are exists in model form

1. cloned demoapp, pip install -U django
2. setup demoapp, updated config and migrations to run under Django2
3. run demo, logged in
4. try to add new note - press plus; type in max into inputs, click save
5. I've been returned to add note page but user combo still shows dashes ---------
6. click on dropdown box and see there new option max
7. click save note and note is saved with user max

I guess some problem in trigger('change'). In my django2 app I had to write window.$('select').trigger('change') instead of $('select').trigger('change').

Note that I'm using SELECT2_USE_BUNDLED_JQUERY = False. So I am using the bundled django jquery (e.g. in the admin)

Since the last change introduced in #55, any autocomplete_fields (django 2+) are now initialised twice.

Not sure why, but removing these lines seems to solve my issue - could this be a solution that works for everyone?
Update: scrap all that, still trying to figure out what is the cause... will update soon

I believe the issue is with the new django-autocomplete-light rather (using both, so hard to tell). I will close until I know for sure and will re-open/recreate a new ticket if I find it's django-easy-select2

I installed easy-select2 following the instructions in the doc and it works perfectly in my local environment. However, in production it seems to be completely ignored. Is there any reason why it would default back to the standard select widget?

I have code like this:

from django import forms
from django_countries.fields import LazyTypedChoiceField, countries
from easy_select2.widgets import Select2Multiple

class LeadForm(forms.Form):
    overseas_company = forms.MultipleChoiceField(
        choices=countries,
        label='Do you have any companies overseas and where?',
        widget=Select2Multiple
    )

But it always renders like a normal forms.SelectMultiple. Your documentation doesn't really cover this case specifically, and I have no idea where to start troubleshooting. Any ideas? I even changed the import to easy_select2.widgets specifically.

I just forked the repo and made a few adjustments that make this work in my Python 3.3.3 environment. These are just a few changes, maybe you could make a version which runs on python 2 and 3

I have about 1500,340 user on my website and when I click to select one user in admin it take long time to load the large username in admin page, anyone has idea to solve the problem?

Hi!

After PR #93 is merged, I consider making another PR dropping support for the following Django and Python versions:

• Django
  • Django 2.0 — end-of-life already
  • Django 2.1 — end-of-life already
  • (Django 2.2 — end-of-life by 2022-05-01)
  • Django 3.0 — end-of-life already
  • Django 3.1 — end-of-life by 2022-01-01
• Python
  • Python 3.5 — end-of-life already
  • Python 3.6 — end-of-life by 2022-12-23
  • (Python 3.8 — no particular need, save runtime and CO2, move coverage collection to (3.7 or) 3.10)
  • (Python 3.9 — no particular need, save runtime and CO2)

The ones in braces are controversial, and I am just voicing an opinion for discussion.

After a decision, the plan for the pull request would be to:

• Introduce python_requires with >=3.7 to setup.py.
• Introduce install_requires with e.g. Django>=3.2 to setup.py.
• Drop things from tox.ini.
• Drop things from CI YAML files.

What do you think?

Best, Sebastian

CC @asyncee @gauravv7 @mikekeda

See ModelAdmin.autocomplete_fields

I upgraded Django to 4.0 and I'm getting an error:

  File "//easy_select2/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from easy_select2.utils import select2_modelform_meta, select2_modelform, \
  File "easy_select2/utils.py", line 5, in <module>
    from easy_select2 import forms as es2_forms
  File "easy_select2/forms.py", line 4, in <module>
    from django.utils.encoding import force_text
ImportError: cannot import name 'force_text' from 'django.utils.encoding' (django/utils/encoding.py)

We need to change force_text to force_str

"Hold down "Control", or "Command" on a Mac, to select more than one." is not relevant for Select2Multiple widgets.

I realise this is an long standing–and very annoying–bug in Django, but it is solvable. Have a look here for clues: http://django-autocomplete-light.readthedocs.org/en/latest/_modules/autocomplete_light/forms.html

Self explanatory.

Hi!

I see no CI here — no Travis, no GitHub Actions, …. Would a pull request running tests using GitHub actions be welcome for review, in general?

Best, Sebastian

Change
from django.templatetags.static import static
to
from django.contrib.staticfiles.storage import staticfiles_storage as static
in order for this to work with other static storages.

Easy select has hard-coded ModelForm class that uses for recreation of admin form.

select2_modelform method returns new model form, but it is always forms.ModelForm instance. But parler needs it's own TranslatableModelForm.

I think the easiest solution is to add additional argument for select2_modelform so it can return another instance. eg. form_model arg.

def select2_modelform(model, attrs=None, form_model=forms.ModelForm):
    classname = '%sForm' % model._meta.object_name
    meta = select2_modelform_meta(model, attrs=attrs)
    return type(classname, (form_model,), {'Meta': meta})

This way you can supply another form model class from admin and this can work with parler (or hvad) with little tweak:

select2_modelform(Poll, 
                   attrs={'width': '250px'}, 
                   form_model=parler.forms.TranslatableModelForm)

Just a heads up, we released Select2 4.0.0 last Sunday (about a week ago). It doesn't look like it would be too difficult to upgrade this project to support it as there isn't a lot of magic involved here.

Django version 1.11.13
django-easy-select2 1.3.4

In Django Admin:
If initially "item 1" is selected and I click the change/edit pencil-icon I get a popup to edit "item 1".
Selecting "item 2" and clicking the change/edit pencil-icon I still get a popup to edit "item 1".

Is this a bug, intended or an error on my part?

I have a model which has a relation to another model. This model has some fields, which use the Select2 dropdown singleselect boxes. When using the "Add another " link:

A new row is added to the table. However, when trying to select a value, the dropdown box doesn't "open".

This is the HTML of a working dropdown:

<td class="field-action_owner">
    <div class="select2-container" id="s2id_id_membership_set-6-action_owner" style="width: 250px;">
        <a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="return false;" class="select2-choice" tabindex="-1">
            <span class="select2-chosen">[email protected]</span>
            <abbr class="select2-search-choice-close"></abbr>
            <span class="select2-arrow"><b></b></span>
        </a>
        <input class="select2-focusser select2-offscreen" type="text" id="s2id_autogen17">
    </div>
    <select name="membership_set-6-action_owner" id="id_membership_set-6-action_owner" tabindex="-1" class="select2-offscreen">
        <option value="">---------</option>
        <option value="1" selected="selected">[email protected]</option>
        <option value="2">[email protected]</option>
    </select>
    <script>
        $("#id_membership_set-6-action_owner").on('select2changed', function(e){
            $("#id_membership_set-6-action_owner").select2({"width": "250px"});
        }).trigger('select2changed');
    </script>
    <a href="/admin/auth/user/add/" class="add-another" id="add_id_membership_set-6-action_owner" onclick="return showAddAnotherPopup(this);"> <img src="/django/static/admin/img/icon_addlink.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="Add Another"></a>
</td>

This is the HTML of a faulty dropdownbox:

<td class="field-action_owner">
    <div class="select2-container" id="s2id_id_membership_set-7-action_owner" style="width: 250px;">
        <a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="return false;" class="select2-choice" tabindex="-1">   
            <span class="select2-chosen">---------</span>
            <abbr class="select2-search-choice-close"></abbr>   
            <span class="select2-arrow"><b></b></span>
        </a>
        <input class="select2-focusser select2-offscreen" type="text" id="s2id_autogen19">
        <div class="select2-drop select2-display-none select2-with-searchbox">
            <div class="select2-search">
                <input type="text" autocomplete="off" autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off" spellcheck="false" class="select2-input">   
            </div>
            <ul class="select2-results"></ul>
        </div>
    </div>
    <select name="membership_set-7-action_owner" id="id_membership_set-7-action_owner" tabindex="-1" class="select2-offscreen">
        <option value="" selected="selected">---------</option>
        <option value="1">[email protected]</option>
        <option value="2">[email protected]</option>
    </select>
    <a href="/admin/auth/user/add/" class="add-another" id="add_id_membership_set-7-action_owner" onclick="return showAddAnotherPopup(this);"> <img src="/django/static/admin/img/icon_addlink.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="Add Another"></a>
</td>

The major difference I see is that the <script> tag is not loaded, which triggers the select2changed function.
In addition, the faulty dropdown also has a select2-drop div underneath the focusser.

I'd like to use django-easy-select2 to provide a "choice field" but where, if none of the choices are suitable, then the user can enter whatever he likes.

For example I have this code which works, but only as a normal choice field:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.forms.models import ModelForm
from adminsortable.admin import SortableAdmin
from easy_select2.widgets import Select2
from .models import VideoClip

class VideoClipAdminForm(ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = VideoClip

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(VideoClipAdminForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

        def get_choices():
            values = VideoClip.objects.values_list('aspect_ratio', flat=True).distinct().order_by('aspect_ratio')
            return [(x, x) for x in values]

        self.fields['aspect_ratio'].widget = Select2(choices=get_choices())


class VideoClipAdmin(SortableAdmin, TimestampedAdmin):
    # form = select2_modelform(VideoClip, attrs={'width': '250px'})
    form = VideoClipAdminForm
    list_display = ('label', 'provider', 'clip_id', 'published', )
    list_editable = ('published', )

    fieldsets = (
        (None, {
            'fields': (
                'label',
                'published',
                'provider',
                'clip_id',
                'aspect_ratio',
                'longdesc',
            ),
        }),
    )

admin.site.register(VideoClip, VideoClipAdmin)

The purpose of all these gyrations is that I'd like the user to be able to enter their own 'aspect_ratio', but they can choose from the list of existing ones (determined by querying the same field on the same model).

I tried to provide a Select2 attribute of 'tags=get_choices()' instead of choices=get_choices(), but it didn't work.

Actually looks like perhaps it should be related to 'createSearchChoice' in Select2?

Is there a way to make this work?

easy-select2 is smart.

but as we declare the form in admin, it influence those form auto-generated by models like markdown field(comes from django_markdown)
which gave me js fault like:

so , how could I deal with multiple things in form?