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Expand Up @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ For example:

search_fields = ['=username', '=email']

By default, the search parameter is named `'search'`, but this may be overridden with the `SEARCH_PARAM` setting.
By default, the search parameter is named `'search'`, but this may be overridden with the `SEARCH_PARAM` setting in the `REST_FRAMEWORK` configuration.

To dynamically change search fields based on request content, it's possible to subclass the `SearchFilter` and override the `get_search_fields()` function. For example, the following subclass will only search on `title` if the query parameter `title_only` is in the request:

Expand All @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ The `OrderingFilter` class supports simple query parameter controlled ordering o

![Ordering Filter](../img/ordering-filter.png)

By default, the query parameter is named `'ordering'`, but this may be overridden with the `ORDERING_PARAM` setting.
By default, the query parameter is named `'ordering'`, but this may be overridden with the `ORDERING_PARAM` setting in the `REST_FRAMEWORK` configuration.

For example, to order users by username:

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