Django admin filter, how to default to 'No' or 'Yes' rather than 'All'?

Using Django
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As the title says, I want to set the filter of a certain field to be set to ‘No’ by default, not ‘All’.
I am not sure how I can set this.

Any help would be appreicated

Thanks

2

A filter in what? Can you provide more context about what you’re trying to do?

3

Sure!

On django admin, you can see various filters(per field specified in list_filter) on the right side of the page.
There we have three options for Boolean field - ‘All’, ‘Yes’ and ‘No’
Default is ‘All’ and I want to change that to ‘No’
So when I go to that page, only objects with that field is set to False will be shown in the list.
Hope this makes sense

Thanks

4

You’ll need to create your own FieldListFilter class. The docs describe how to add one generally. Though I would implement mine as a subclass of BooleanFieldListFilter, but override __init__ to set the default to the No case.

5

Hi!

Thanks for the answer.
But I still cannot figure out which property or method I should override in BooleanFieldListFilter.
Could you please provide me more details?

Regards

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Hi, Tim!

I figured it out.
I added an entry(query: value) to used_parameters dictionary on __init__method.
Like this:
self.used_parameters = {‘is_active__exact’: True}

Thanks for your hint. :smiley: