Django admin search: how to override the default handler?

Question

I wish to customize the way in which search queries across the search_fields.

Is there a way to do it without hacking deeply into the Django code or creating a totally i

Answer 1

you can add an ModelAdmin method:

def queryset(self, request):
    qs = super(MyModelAdmin, self).queryset(request)
    # modify queryset here, eg. only user-assigned tasks
    qs.filter(assigned__exact=request.user)
    return qs

you have a request here, so most of the stuff can be view dependent, including url parameters, cookies, sessions etc.