Supercharging the Django Admin

Liam Andrew (mailbackwards) gave a talk at #DjangoCon 2017 about ‘Supercharging the Django Admin’.  Here is some of the information and a GitHub repo with a project demonstrating the information from the talk.

Ways to change the admin classes

• Add list_display to your Admin class to add more columns to the header field.

Define a method and then add that to the list_display to have arbitrary information, but remember to add prefetch_related to models you load in that method.

• Allow people to edit things from the admin list using `list_editable` but since this adds a button and a text field, it’s often overwhelming unless used for a specific purpose.

 

• Make dynamic actions using a method that returns a select box depending on what the user is attempting to do.

 

Useful Packages

• django-admin-row-actions : add a button/action at the end of each row for that individual item
• django-object-actions : Put buttons in the changelist without editing the template.  Adds a changelist_actions to the admin models.
  return redirect(‘admin:newshound_breed_changelist’)
• django-nested-admin: Allows multiple layers in one view (breed group, breed, or dog)  with sorting!
• django-inline-actions: another way to add action buttons to each row

 

Tips

Beware of over-querying without prefetch!

Repository with concrete examples

https://github.com/mailbackwards/newshound