django-admin-easy

Collection of admin fields to help to create computed or custom fields more friendly and easy way

Installation

1. pip install django-admin-easy

Usage

in your admin file

from django.contrib import admin
import easy

class YourAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_fields = ('id', 'custom1', 'custom2', 'custom3' ... 'customN')

    # render a value of field, method, property or your model or related model
    custom1 = easy.SimpleAdminField('model_field')
    custom1 = easy.SimpleAdminField('method_of_model')
    custom2 = easy.SimpleAdminField('related.attribute_or_method')
    custom4 = easy.SimpleAdminField('related_set.count', 'count')
    custom5 = easy.SimpleAdminField(lambda x: x.method(), 'show', 'order_by')

    # render boolean fields
    custom6 = easy.BooleanAdminField(lambda x: x.value > 10, 'high')

    # render foreignkey with link to change_form in admin
    custom7 = easy.ForeignKeyAdminField('related')

    # render template
    custom8 = easy.TemplateAdminField('test.html', 'shorty description', 'order_field')

    # render to change_list of another model with a filter on query
    custom9 = easy.TestLinkChangeListAdminField('app_label', 'model_name', 'attribute_to_text', {'field_name':'field_to_query'})

If you want to use on admin form to show some information, don't forget to add your custom field on readonly_fields attribute of your admin class

from django.contrib import admin
import easy

class YourAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fields = ('custom1', 'custom2', 'custom3' ... 'customN')
    readonly_fields = ('custom1', 'custom2', 'custom3' ... 'customN')

    custom1 = easy.ForeignKeyAdminField('related')
    # ...

Screenshot

Using example of poll of django tutorial

Please help us

This project is still under development. Feedback and suggestions are very welcome and I encourage you to use the Issues list on Github to provide that feedback.

Authors

The django-admin-easy was original created by Ezequiel Bertti @ebertti October 2014.