In DjangoBook, it says that the every books app should have its own admin.py. However, none of my apps have there own separate admin.py as the text suggests. I was just wondering if this is a Django 1.3 thing and if so, where is the admin.py data stored now, if not in a separate admin.py file?
The chapter I'm referring to is here:
http://djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter06/
P.S. I'm not talking about django-admin.py
By default there is no admin.py file created for you when you create a new app, you will need to create your own. Here are the directions on how to create the admin.py file.
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/contrib/admin/
Edit: 1.3 is no longer supported, here is a link to 1.8:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/contrib/admin/
You need to create admin.py in new app and edit it with from django.contrib import adminIn project/urls.py, in my case (mysite/urls.py) specify the url of newapp/admin (polls/admin) likefrom django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover() urlpatterns = patterns('',url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),)
Related
When you extend AdminSite to create another admin site how do you go about being able to reverse match each site? It seems the admin namespace is hardcoded reverse('admin:index'), is there a way to supply a custom namespace?
You may be confused with the namespace in django. If you are interested to clarify that confusion, you may read up the discussion here.
If you want to try solve your problem, there is a specific documentation for multiple admin sites.
Below are example solutions mostly copied from official documentation
Example Solution:
# urls.py
from django.conf.urls import url
from .sites import basic_site, advanced_site
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^basic-admin/', basic_site.urls),
url(r'^advanced-admin/', advanced_site.urls),
]
And
# sites.py
from django.contrib.admin import AdminSite
class MyAdminSite(AdminSite):
site_header = 'Monty Python administration'
basic_site = MyAdminSite(name='myadminbasic')
advanced_site = MyAdminSite(name='myadminadvanced')
Reversing
reverse('myadminbasic:index') # /basic-admin/
reverse('myadminadvanced:index') # /advanced-admin/
I've been following the DjangoProject tutorial. When I run python manage.py startapp newapp while in the same directory as manage.py. In the newapp directory I see init.py, models.py, tests.py, and views.py but not admin.py file. Where is admin.py?
I am running Django 1.5.1 in Windows 8
You have to create an admin.py file.
you don't necessarily need an admin.py file,
just import the admin module in your models.py file,
from django.contrib import admin
and for each model do the following:
admin.site.register(model1)
admin.site.register(model2)
However, this is not best practice, but since it's just a tutorial, it will work.
You also need to uncoment the relevant lines in the urls.py file
I think I had the same frustrations following the DjangoProject tutorial - however, when I cross-referenced it with with the DjangoBook tutorial (for the same version, I believe, 1.5.1), I found that an admin.py file was not necessarily created after a python manage.py startapp xyz command -- moreover, I also uncommented all of the admin options in urls.py, views.py, and settings.py - so a bit of a mix of what Neal and Ibrahim said
You have to create your own admin.py file in the app if you want it. Indeed, this file is optionnal and isn't created by startapp.
If you want a default template to begin your admin.py, it should be:
from django.contrib import admin
from models import Model1, Model2
class Model2Admin(admin.ModelAdmin):
list_display = ('title', 'content', 'date')
# Just an example, chekc docs and tutorials for more info.
admin.site.register(Model1)
admin.site.register(Model2, Model2Admin)
The reason there is no default admin.py is because you don't have any models yet when you create your new application; so there is nothing to add to the admin section.
Further, you may not want to admin all the models in your application; or you may be creating an application that does not need any admin hookups; or you may not be using the admin application at all in your project.
Since django cannot decide this for you, there is no default admin.py generated.
To create one, if you are following the tutorial - simply keep reading and in part two you'll create the admin.py file when you learn about the admin contrib app and how to integrate it with your custom models.
I am following a tutorial on http://www.lightbird.net/dbe/todo_list.html to create a simple todo app. In one of the steps, I had to modify view to add an ability in 'admin' to mark tasks as done from that view. However I get the error ImportError at /admin/ no module named todo.
The error is not thrown from any particular line from the code so I do not know how to debug this. I am new to django. So I documented my error in my blog here: http://djangounchain.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/tutorial-8-todo-list-app/
Hope someone can help me!
You are registering your models to AdminSite in todo/models.py itself.
As per official django documentation, you need to create admin.py file inside your app for admin.autodiscover() to work properly.
The last step in setting up the Django admin is to hook your AdminSite
instance into your URLconf. Do this by pointing a given URL at the
AdminSite.urls method.
In this example, we register the default AdminSite instance
django.contrib.admin.site at the URL /admin/
# urls.py
from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)
Above we used admin.autodiscover() to automatically load the
INSTALLED_APPS admin.py modules.
I am trying to enable the admin for my app. I managed to get the admin running, but I can't seem to make my models appear on the admin page.
I tried following the tutorial (here) which says:
(Quote)
Just one thing to do: We need to tell
the admin that Poll objects have an
admin interface. To do this, create a
file called admin.py in your polls
directory, and edit it to look like
this:
from polls.models import Poll from
django.contrib import admin
admin.site.register(Poll)
(end quote)
I added an admin.py file as instructed, and also added the following lines into urls.py:
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
...
(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)
but it appears to have no effect. I even added a print 1 at the first line of admin.py and I see that the printout never happens, So I guess django doesn't know about my admin.py. As said, I can enter the admin site, I just don't see anything other than "groups", "users" and "sites".
What step am I missing?
You need to ensure you have app containing Poll listed in INSTALLED_APPS :)
Also: If you're adding the admin.py file with the dev server running, make sure to restart it. This tripped me up for a minute. :)
I am building a app. The app will build a Poll OR a Quiz.
So my models will have a type field(Poll, Quiz)
Now i would like to display the 2 "Types" in the admin App list. But i dont what to create two apps Poll and Quiz. Is there a way, to display the 2 options in the list and then when you click on lets say Poll, the type field is set to Poll and then you fill in the rest of the models fields.
Thanks
have a short look to the second tutorial page of django. It describes the how to do that.
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/intro/tutorial02/#intro-tutorial02
You need to activate the admin site:
Add "django.contrib.admin" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting.
Run python manage.py syncdb.
update urls.py
# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
add the next line to urlpatterns
(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
2 . You need to add your models to the admin interface
You only have to create a admin.py in your application directory (e.g. polls) and fill in the following content:
from mysite.polls.models import Poll, Quiz
from django.contrib import admin
admin.site.register(Poll)
admin.site.register(Quiz)
you have to change the first line of course to fit with your project name.
Hope this will help!
alas!I figured it out!
What you use is a Django Proxy Model
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/topics/db/models/#id8
So I set up a Proxy model in my models.py file and then in admin.py I just used the proxy models as Admin.