Django Admin Cookbook

Django Admin Cookbook - How to do things with Django admin.

This is a book about doing things with Django admin. It takes the form of about forty questions and common tasks with Django admin we answer.

The chapters are based on a common set of models, which you can read in detail here (Models used in this book). In short, we have two apps, events and entities. The models are

• Events: Epic, Event, EventHero, EventVillian
• Entities: Category, Origin, Hero, Villain

• Introduction

Text and Design

• 1. How to change ‘Django administration’ text?
• 2. How to set the plural text for a model?
• 3. How to create two independent admin sites?
• 4. How to remove default apps from Django admin?
• 5. How to add a logo to Django admin?
• 6. How to override Django admin templates?

Calculated fields

• 1. How to show calculated fields on listview page?
• 2. How to optimize queries in Django admin?
• 3. How to enable sorting on calculated fields?
• 4. How to enable filtering on calculated fields?
• 5. How to show “on” or “off” icons for calculated boolean fields?

Bulk and custom actions

• 1. How to add additional actions in Django admin?
• 2. How to export CSV from Django admin?
• 3. How to remove the delete selected action in Django admin?
• 4. How to add Custom Action Buttons (not actions) to Django Admin list page?
• 5. How to import CSV using Django admin?

Permissions

• 1. How to restrict Django admin to specific users?
• 2. How to restrict access to parts of Django admin?
• 3. How to allow creating only one object from the admin?
• 4. How to remove the ‘Add’/’Delete’ button for a model?

Multiple models and inlines

• 1. How to edit mutiple models from one Django admin?
• 2. How to add One to One relation as admin inline?
• 3. How to add nested inlines in Django admin?
• 4. How to create a single Django admin from two different models?

Listview Page

• 1. How to show larger number of rows on listview page?
• 2. How to disable django admin pagination?
• 3. How to add date based filtering in Django admin?
• 4. How to show many to many or reverse FK fields on listview page?

Changeview Page

• 1. How to show image from Imagefield in Django admin.
• 2. How to associate model with current user while saving?
• 3. How to mark a field as readonly in admin?
• 4. How to show an uneditable field in admin?
• 5. How to make a field editable while creating, but read only in existing objects?
• 6. How to filter FK dropdown values in django admin?
• 7. How to manage a model with a FK with a large number of objects?
• 8. How to change ForeignKey display text in dropdowns?
• 9. How to add a custom button to Django change view page?

Misc

• 1. How to get Django admin urls for specific objects?
• 2. How to add a model twice to Django admin?
• 3. How to override save behaviour for Django admin?
• 4. How to add a database view to Django admin?
• 5. How to set ordering of Apps and models in Django admin dashboard.

Indices and tables

• Models used in this book

• Index