I have django powered admin site, using grappelli. At one point we use a lot of admin inlines which sometimes have almost identical content to them. So it would be really useful to have some sort of duplicate button next to each inline element. Pushing it would just add the same content without the ID.
Is something like that possible. I know I could write custom admin action but those are not supported for inlines?
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I really like StreamFields, but I don't want the baggage of Wagtail's Publishing system.
For example, consider a Forum community site. Instead of using CK Editor or BBCode, Markdown etc form input. I want to give users the option of StreamField based input to construct posts or replies
Is this possible? If yes, what steps would I need to take or edits to Wagtail do I need to do?
I'm guessing using a permission system while keeping the user as a limited admin would be the thing to do, since removing the user from admin doesn't seem to be possible since Wagtail is heavily reliant on Django Admin.
I'm guessing using a permission system while keeping the user as a
limited admin would be the thing to do, since removing the user from
admin doesn't seem to be possible since Wagtail is heavily reliant on
Django Admin.
If you want to reuse StreamFields, you probably want to use the Wagtail admin interface; doing otherwise is likely to be quite a bit of work. So users will need to be able to log in and have the wagtail_admin permission so they can access the admin interface. If you tried to use Page models for your forum, you are going to end up crossways of the way Wagtail's page permissions cascade. You could probably write your own admin views for regular users to add certain kinds of content.
But honestly, unless you have quite a bit of experience with Wagtail in its normal content management mode, I wouldn't suggest you try using it for this use case.
I have been tackling a particular design issue with Wagtail admin. Thus far I have not found a way to enable side scrolling admin listing pages. I want to extend my user model with more data about the users (e.g., occupation, education, address, and so on). While extending Wagtail with some models for a particular project, I noticed Wagtail admin listing pages do not automatically activate sides crolling as Django admin does.
I have looked at Wagtail hooks doccumentation but apparently there isn't a straightforward way to do that. I don't think it would be wise to mess with core css. Does anyone have an idea on how to customize css to enable that?
See pictures below:
This is how Django admin handles it. We can add filters while the table adjusts itself activating side scrolling.
Wagtail Bakery demo user model has few fields. So the listing admin page does not need to side scroll. I have not tested adding filters on this page yet, but I am assuming it will work just as it did to my other models.
This is how my admin page looks like when using filters. The table does not activate side scrolling and gets messed up when I use filters.
I'd appreciate any help poiting the way to best tackle this problem. Thus far I found this and this answers to similar, though not exaclty the same, problems with Wagtail admin design.
The admin interface for editing (adding, deleting, changing) entries in the database is great. I am working on a system, based on HTML forms, to allow users to edit information relevant to them in the database. This will take a lot of work, and look less than professional. Is there a standard way to allow a logged in user to use an administration-interface-like page to edit their (and only their) entries in a DB/model?
You can probably do what you need by customizing django admin. In django admin you can define get_queryset method to restrict objects available for current user. See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.get_queryset, example there matches pretty well to your task
One use case for overriding this method is to show objects owned by the logged-in user...
I'm totally new to Mezzanine CMS. I got handed a site to work with and so far I've been able to do all the changes without problem. I've run across a problem in which they want a new section in the home page. I go to the admin section to edit the home page, but there is no extra content field.
On the home page, I see 4 sections "content" "priorities" "testimonials" and "clients". I would like to have another "content" area as a 5th section. How do I go on and add this section? I'm totally new to Django but would be appreciative if someone could explain or point in the right direction.
Here is a link to an image for reference.
https://imgur.com/a/sUKOtvS
Thanks in advance
The homepage content would be backed by a Django model with attributes for the partners and testimonial fields. You'll need to find the Python class for this model in your code base (you could search for those field names), and you'll need to add a new attribute for the new section you need.
Django and Mezzanine have lots of different field types you can use for these attributes, so consult their respective documentation for how those work (Django's are a lot more comprehensive, so start there).
Once you've done that, you'll need to create a database migration for the new attribute - that adds the field to the database table that will store the actual content, again consult the Django documentation for how these work.
Finally you may need to add the new field to the Admin class, which is the Python class (similar to the model) that controls which fields appear in the admin interface, and how they appear. I say "may" as these generally appear automatically without any code, but if things have been modified to a certain extent, you may need to do this manually.
I want to use Django for a web application I'm building that will have an admin panel. I know that you need to just activate the admin app and you're ready to go. However, I would like to have a custom panel, I mean, I want to design the layout myself, I want to add menus and forms for the admin to insert new data in the database etc. Is it possible? or I should write a similar application that will have such features?
For more control over the layout (custom menus etc.) you should check django-admin-tools.
And if you take a look at Django's docs you'll learn that you can easily tweak and override most parts of the admin. For example here is a demonstration on how to use a custom form:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#adding-custom-validation-to-the-admin
So the admin is pretty customizable. But the question if you should build your own app or reuse the admin depends pretty much on your specific needs. At least make sure you know in which directions the admin can be easily bend.
The sole purpose for Django's admin is to allow you to manipulate (add/edit/remove) data in your database. I think you should at least try to check what the admin is capable of before trying to reinvent the wheel. You'll soon discover the level of complex insight the admin allows you to have. Then you'll discover that making it yourself is unnecessary excess of work and you'll end up with modifying a couple of admin-templates and CSS styles.
Yes, you can customize Django Admin Panel, Django provides some sort of customization for showing database tables structure from their own, for that you can follow DJANGO ADMIN SITE DOC , it will really help you.
For the customizations beyond the Django admin site settings, you can customize admin panel add manual layout, by adding manual detailing in Django template files which are stored in Django environment, django/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/index.html of your current Django version. You can update its HTML, CSS, and JS according to need.