Modifying admin page¶

The template files that are used for admin page are found in git hub, under the following directory structure

django/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/

The template files to be modifyed are placed under templates/admin from the top level directory in your project folder with the same correxponding name

Example

To modify the title and headings, modify base_site.html

{%  extends "admin/base.html"  %}

<!-- Modify title here -->
{%  block title  %} Admin - Rental Registration {%  endblock  %}

{%  block branding  %}
<!-- modify heading here -->
<h1 id="site-name"><a href="{%  url 'admin:index'  %}">Video Rental</a></h1>
{%  endblock  %}
{%  block nav-global  %}{%  endblock  %}

Modifying the ordering and visibility of model fields in Admin table¶

To do this, we create a new class in admin.py and register this class along with the model

The name of this class should be name of model followed by 'Admin' and inherit from admin.ModelAdmin

models.py

# Create your models here.
class Movie(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=256)
    length = models.PositiveIntegerField()
    release_year = models.PositiveIntegerField()

    #Without this, the name of data in the table will be 'movie object'
    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

In admin.py

#to reorder the fields in the detail view of Movie object in admin interface
# The name of this class should be name of model followed by 'Admin'
class MovieAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fields = ['release_year','title']

#Register this class along with your original model
admin.site.register(models.Movie,MovieAdmin)

To do this we add a variable search_fields in ModelAdmin class

class MovieAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fields = ['release_year','title']

    #Displays a search box and helps searching my movie title or length
    search_fields = ['title','length']

Adding filters¶

In the ModelAdmin class

#Adding filters
    # Not all fields can be appropriate for filters
    #used for only categorical fields
    list_filter = ['release_year']

Displaying additional fields in the list view page of the models¶

In ModelAdmin class

#Displays additional fields in the list view page of the model
    list_display = ['title','release_year','length']

Editing fields in list view of the model¶