Working with the django admin
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The document discusses the Django admin interface and alternatives. It describes when to use the Django admin, such as for initial data entry but not public end users. It also discusses customizing the admin display and functions. Finally, it reviews some alternative admin apps for Django like django-xadmin and django-grappelli as well as admin plugins for other frameworks like Flask.
![VIEWING STRING REPRESENTATIONS OF
OBJECTS
• Implement the __unicode__ ()
>>> IceCreamBar.objects.all()
[<IceCreamBar: Vanilla Crisp>, <IceCreamBar: Mint Cookie Crunch>,
<IceCreamBar: Strawberry Pie>]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/workingwiththedjangoadmin-140318214324-phpapp02/85/Working-with-the-django-admin-4-320.jpg)
Working with the django admin
- 2. WHO AND WHEN TO USE THE DJANGO ADMIN When people ask, “What are the benefits of Django over other web frameworks?” the admin is what usually comes to mind. Who • It's Not for End Users When • It’s usually not worth it to heavily customize the Django admin.
- 3. VIEWING STRING REPRESENTATIONS OF OBJECTS • Implement the __unicode__ () #EXAMPLE 15.1 from django.db import models class IceCreamBar(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=100) shell = models.CharField(max_length=100) filling = models.CharField(max_length=100) has_stick = models.BooleanField(default=True) def __unicode__(self): return self.name
- 4. VIEWING STRING REPRESENTATIONS OF OBJECTS • Implement the __unicode__ () >>> IceCreamBar.objects.all() [<IceCreamBar: Vanilla Crisp>, <IceCreamBar: Mint Cookie Crunch>, <IceCreamBar: Strawberry Pie>]
- 5. VIEWING STRING REPRESENTATIONS OF OBJECTS • Use list_display #EXAMPLE 15.3 from django.contrib import admin from .models import IceCreamBar class IceCreamBarAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): list_display = ("name", "shell", "filling”,) admin.site.register(IceCreamBar, IceCreamBarAdmin)
- 6. VIEWING STRING REPRESENTATIONS OF OBJECTS • Use list_display
- 7. VIEWING STRING REPRESENTATIONS OF OBJECTS • search_fields • list_filter • date_hierarchy • ordering
- 8. ADDING CALLABLES TO MODELADMIN CLASSES #EXAMPLE 15.4 from django.contrib import admin from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse from icecreambars.models import IceCreamBar class IceCreamBarAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): list_display = ("name", "shell", "filling",) readonly_fields = ("show_url",) def show_url(self, instance): url = reverse("ice_cream_bar_detail", kwargs={"pk": instance.pk}) response = """<a href="{0}">{0}</a>""".format(url) return response show_url.short_description = "Ice Cream Bar URL" # Displays HTML tags # Never set allow_tags to True against user submitted data!!! show_url.allow_tags = True admin.site.register(IceCreamBar, IceCreamBarAdmin)
- 9. ADDING CALLABLES TO MODELADMIN CLASSES
- 10. OTHER FRAMEWORKS Flask-admin plays nicely with various ORM's, including SQLAlchemy, MongoEngine, pymongo and Peewee. file management interface redis client console
- 11. OTHER FRAMEWORKS Web2py Web-Based IDE: Create, modify, deploy and manage application from anywhere using your browser. One web2py instance can run multiple web sites using different databases.
- 12. DJANGO ADMIN PLUGIN django-xadmin(by sshwsfc) • Drop-in replacement of Django admin • Twitter Bootstrap based UI with theme support • Extensible with plugin support • Better filter, date range, number range, etc. • Built-in data export with xls, csv, xml and json format • Dashboard page with widget support • In-site bookmarking • Full CRUD methods • Documentation: Chinese http://demo.xadmin.io
- 13. DJANGO ADMIN PLUGIN django-grappelli (by sehmaschine) • Clean and consistent look & feel • Related lookups with Autocompletes • Inline sortables with Drag & Drop • Compass-based CSS • Integrated TinyMCE theme • Customizable dashboard • Improved collapsibles • Unified jQuery-Plugins • Compatible with django—filebrowser
- 14. DJANGO ADMIN PLUGIN django-admin2 (by pydanny) • Rewrite of the Django Admin backend • Drop-in themes • Built-in RESTful API • (django-rest-framework) django-admin-bootstrapped • Bootstrap theme
- 15. REFERENCE Django official doc: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/ Django Book: http://django-book.readthedocs.org/en/latest/chapter06.html Flask-admin doc: https://flask-admin.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ Flask-admin example: http://examples.flask-admin.org/ django-xadmin: https://github.com/sshwsfc/django-xadmin django-grappelli: http://grappelliproject.com/ Django Packages - Admin Interface: https://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/admin-interface/