Django Admin Extended

Enhance UI/UX of django admin

Features:

• Custom order menu item
• Restyle sidebar menu UI, collapse menu
• Restyle align for form row in change page
• Collapse filter box
• Admin inlines tabbable
• Read only mode
• Bookmark menu
• Ignore confirm delete page option
• Add link for foregin key in change list page
• And more utils functions

Install

pip install git+https://github.com/santhosh-programmer/django-admin-extended.git

Setting

# Install app, install before django.contrib.admin
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'admin_extended',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    ...
]

ADMIN_EXTENDED = {
    'MENU_APP_ORDER': ['user', 'auth'],
    'MENU_MODEL_ORDER': ['User', 'Group'],
    'MODEL_ADMIN_TABBED_INLINE': True,
    'RAW_ID_FIELDS_AS_DEFAULT': False,
}

• MENU_APP_ORDER: change order of app at left sidebar
• MENU_MODEL_ORDER: change order of model at left sidebar
• MODEL_ADMIN_TABBED_INLINE: use tab for model inline. Default is True
• RAW_ID_FIELDS_AS_DEFAULT: use raw_id_fields (or autocomplete_fields if related model have search_fields) as default for related fields instead of select box

Basic Usage

from django.apps import apps
from django.contrib import admin
from admin_extended.base import ExtendedAdminModel
from . import models



class PostCommentInline(admin.TabularInline):
    model = models.PostComment
    extra = 0

class PostTagInline(admin.TabularInline):
    model = models.PostTag
    extra = 0

@admin.register(models.Post)
class PostAdmin(ExtendedAdminModel):
    list_display = ('id', 'title', 'post_at')
    search_fields = ('title',)
    search_help_text = 'Search by title'
    list_filter = ('status',)
    inlines = [
        PostCommentInline,
        PostTagInline
    ]

ExtendedAdminModel options

• raw_id_fields_as_default (boolean, default True) Use raw_id_fields (or autocomplete_fields if related model have search_fields) as default for ForeginKey instead of select box (optimize performance for large database)
• delete_without_confirm (boolean, default False) Ignore confirm page for delete action
• tab_inline (boolean, default from setting) Use tab for model inline (override value in setting)
• super_admin_only_fields (list, default []) Only show these fields if user login is superuser
• ext_read_only_fields (list, default []) Only show these fields in view mode. Default custom fields start with display_ was mark as read only so you don't need add these fields to ext_read_only_fields
• ext_write_only_fields (list, default []) Only show these fields in edit mode
• enable_foreign_link (boolean, default True) Add link for foregin key in change list page

Advand

Add custom object tools item in change list or change form

from admin_extended.decorators import object_tool
from admin_extended.base import ExtendedAdminModel

@admin.register(models.Customer)
class CustomerAdmin(ExtendedAdminModel):
    change_form_object_tools = ['demo_change_form_action']
    change_list_object_tools = ['demo_change_list_action']

    @object_tool(name='do_something', description='Do something', http_method='post', post_param_title='Name')
    def demo_change_form_action(self, request, object_id):
        customer = models.Customer.objects.get(pk=object_id)
        context = {
            **admin.site.each_context(request),
            'title': f'Update customer {customer.name}',
        }
        if request.method == 'POST':
            form = CustomForm(request.POST)
            messages.success(request, request.POST.get('data'))
            if form.is_valid():
                print(form.cleaned_data)
                return redirect(reverse('admin:shop_customer_change', args=[object_id]))
        context["form"] = CustomForm()
        return render(request, 'admin/custom/custom_form.html', context)

    @object_tool(name='demo_change_list_action', description='Do something')
    def demo_change_list_action(self, request):
        context = {
            **admin.site.each_context(request),
            'title': f'Import customer',
        }
        if request.method == 'POST':
            form = CustomForm(request.POST)
            if form.is_valid():
                print(form.cleaned_data)
                return redirect(reverse('admin:shop_customer_changelist'))
        context["form"] = CustomForm()
        return render(request, 'admin/custom/custom_form.html', context)

Result

• Change list object tool

• Change form object tool

object_tool(function=None, *, icon=None, name=None, description=None, http_method='get', post_param_title=None)

• icon: icon of button
• name: name of object tool (must unique)
• description: label of button
• http_method: Only affect in change form page. with http_method is post, you can pass one param when submit object tool.
• post_param_title: Only affect when http_method is post. Title of param you want to pass.

Add bookmark

• Go to page you want add to bookmark
• Click bookmark button add bottom right
• Choose name of bookmark
• You also can manage book mark (add, delete, change order, ...) in bookmark model

Automatically Register All Models In Django Admin

Add this code at end of admin.py file of lastest install app (INSTALLED_APPS setting)

from admin_extended.utils import auto_register_model_admin

auto_register_model_admin()

auto_register_model_admin(default_model_admin_class=DefaultModelAdmin, ignore_models=[]): This function will automatic register admin for all unregistered model

• default_model_admin_class: DefaultModelAdmin will list all fields (exclude TextField) of model in change list page, you can custom your model admin and pass to this param
• ignore_models: list model you don't want auto register. specify by <app_label>.<model_name>. Eg: 'users.user'

Screenshots

• Change list page

• Read only mode

• Edit mode