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.
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I followed this question's answers to change my django admin panel title header.
I tried this:
There is an easy way to set admin site header - assign it to current
admin instance in urls.py like this
admin.site.site_header = 'My admin'
But it just works when I'm running the page via Python manage.py runserver
My question is how can I change the admin title header when I'm running the site via gunicorn and nginx
writing this code at the bottom of urls.py somehow worked:
admin.site.site_header = 'My admin'
If you already have an admin.py file started wherein you have registered your particular models, you can simply adjust these values there.
your_app/admin.py
# Simple admin setup
from django.contrib import admin
from .models import MyModel
# Register model
admin.site.register(MyModel)
# Tweak admin site settings like title, header, 'View Site' URL, etc
admin.site.site_title = 'My App Admin'
admin.site.site_header = 'My App Admin'
You can find all the attributes here.
follow the below steps to customize the site header and site title text of django admin login page :
1.)First import admin module in settings.py file like as below :
from django.contrib import admin
2.)In bottom of settings.py file add these lines:
admin.site.site_header = 'MY_SITE_HEADER'
admin.site.site_title = 'MY_SITE_TITLE'
The above method works in latest version of django i.e.1.11.3 till date.
You can make changes to parts of the admin by providing a template in an admin subdir of your templates directory to override what is provided by admin.
In this case, you'd want to provide a base_site.html template. You can see what the default one looks like here: https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/base_site.html
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.
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)),)
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 added a model to admin via admin.site.register, and it does not show up in admin. Since admin is so "It just works", I have no idea of how to debug this. Pointers?
After adding and registering your admin:
# app/admin.py
class YourModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
pass
admin.site.register(YourModel, YourModelAdmin)
Make sure your app is in your project settings.py:
# settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = (
# other apps ...
'app',
)
Sync your project for that model if you have not done so already:
python manage.py syncdb
Restart your server, CTRL-C:
python manage.py runserver
In such a situation is also a good practice to check if the user logged in to the admin panel has rights to manage such a model. If they do then you could change your code to access the functions as root.
When in doubt, shut down server, syncdb, start server.
I have the experience, that sometimes after changing an admin.py the dev-sever won't be restarted. in that case touch settings.py helps.
I think the checklist in Thierry's answer is almost definitive, but make sure that urls.py contains admin.autodiscover() to load INSTALLED_APPS admin.py modules.
# urls.py
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
('^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)
More info in the django docs.
Have you added the application to your installed apps? That has happened to me both one and two times. :) Otherwise it would be useful for us to see the code to help you.
Also make sure there are no syntax errors in your admin.py or anything. That can cause an app to fail to be registered with the AdminSite.
I've faced the same problem, but it was a little tricky than yours.
Consider, that you have a project with, say, five or even more apps. For me it is more obvious to register all models in just one admin.py file, so I have decided to do it in one place - core directory. Of course, it was not an app, so none of models showed up on admin page.
comment out the some lines in urls.py see docs for more details
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
('^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)