ManyToMany in Admin - URL's to objects instand standard widget? - python

How to display url to objects from Many To Many relation instead standard widget?
For example url's to Author objects here:

I think one way is to overwrite str method of Author.
Another is to change widget for that field Django: Admin: changing the widget of the field in Admin , my prefered method.

Django admin offers to properties that change the way m2m fields act in the admin: filter_vertical and filter_horizontal use them like this:
class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
filter_horizontal = ('author',)
or replace with filter_vertical use one or the other on the same field.

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searchable dropdown list for adding a new post in django [duplicate]

I got a foreign key model with about 100,000 date.
It's too difficult to select the wanted data. So I'm wondering if there is a humanized way to add foreign key in django admin.
I have tried the raw_id_fields, it's useless.
this don't work.
If you have a raw_id_fields set on your source admin class, you can set the search_fields on the target admin model to be able to filter the result based on the set search_fields, i.e. you will get a search input field in the select list popup, see image below.
Alternatively, django-2.0 just merged a pull request providing support for using select2 widgets in the django admin, see pull request for the full list of supported fields: https://github.com/django/django/pull/6385
With this you can use the autocomplete_fields on a foreignkey field on your source admin class and as before set the search_fields on the target admin class.
Select2 is very handy to deal with such situation. You may check packages for Select2 integration with Django.
django-select2 and django-easy-select2 both are good option to consider.

How can I make the multi-select function in django admin

I am using the ManyToManyField in Django models and would like to change the interphase to something better rather than the default interphase.
This is the default interphase, how can I make it like a multiple select items.
You could use below option under ModelAdmin inherited class which transforms widget as in image below
filter_horizontal = ('students', 'teacher',)
also refer here

Use Django User permission layout for other manytomany field

When in a User object in the Django Admin, there is a really nice way to add permissions to the user.
For a completely different model, I would like to use the same system. This model has a manytomany field to another model. Is there a way to copy the layout of the user admin, to this model's admin?
Add your field to the ModelAdmin's filter_horizontal:
#admin.register(MyModel)
class MyModelAdmin(ModelAdmin):
# ...
filter_horizontal = ['my_many_to_many_field']

Customizing the Django User admin

I have a Django application where users have additional data. That data is collected in a Profile model with a OneToOneField pointing to User.
This is fine and works perfectly for most purposes, but I have trouble customizing the admin for User. In particular:
I would like to be able to show a Profile field inside list_display. I don't know how to do this without writing an additional method on User itself.
I would like to be able to show some information about related models (e.g. some resources owned by the user) inside the User detail page. Again, I do not know how to do this without writing a custom User method.
Do you know any solution to the above?
You only have to edit the admin classes in admin.py. You can use admin.inline* class to help you. Example from Django website that will add Book to the Author's admin page:
class BookInline(admin.TabularInline):
model = Book
class AuthorAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
inlines = [
BookInline,
]
admin.site.register(Author, AuthorAdmin)
Read more here.
EDIT: You should be able to add methods on UserAdmin model and refer to them when setting the list_display fields:
list_display = (..., 'your_method')
Turns out, one can put the methods in the UserAdmin itself instead than in the User model. This way I can access all the information I need about the user.

Filter a User list using a UserProfile field in Django Admin

I'm trying to filter the User list in Django using a UserProfile Field... I need to implement a queue system where new users are put in a queue until an Admin approves them.
I simply added a is_in_queue boolean field to my UserProfile model... However, when displaying the user list in my Admin area, I realized that you can't filter the list using a Model's foreign key field (in this case, a field of UserProfile)
Apparently, list_display items can be callables but list_filter can't, so I can list IF a user is in the queue without a problem, but the admin would have to scroll through the whole user list to spot which ones are in the queue which makes no sense... Filtering only users that are in the queue (using userprofile.in_queue) would be much more practical...
Finally, I thought about adding a custom view to my admin area that would list only the user in the queue, but that custom view does not show up on the Admin area Index page, and putting together a whole new AdminSite only for a new filtering option seems a bit over the top...
So basically to sum it up: Can I filter my User list based on a
UserProfile field? If not, can I add a custom view that's accessible
from the front page without having to create a completely new
AdminSite only for that?
Django 1.3 fixed that - list_filter now allows to span relations:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.list_filter
You may want to take a look in to using a custom manager for the admin_objects of your model.
class UserAdminManager(models.AdminManager):
"""
Custom manager for the User model.
"""
def get_query_set(self):
"""
Overwrites the get_query_set to only return Users in the queue.
"""
return super(UserAdminManager, self).get_query_set().filter(userprofile__queue=True)
By overwriting the get_query_set method you can filter the results. Then just assign this to the admin_objects property of your User model.
admin_objects = UserAdminManager()
Some of the property names in my example may be wrong, as I don't know your model setup, but hopefully you get the idea.
You can research this further by checking out the django docs and searching for "custom managers".
It sounds to me like the quickest and easiest option is to add a new admin view to your application, specifically for your custom user model. See the Django admin docs for details, though it sounds like you know how to use Admin already.
Once the admin page is specific to your model, all your custom fields will no longer be foreign keys. This would make filtering easy.

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