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Reputation:

How to change "app name" in Django admin?

I created 'frontend' application using ./manage.py startproject frontend.

But for some reason I just want to change the app name in the Django admin to display 'Your Home Page' instead of 'frontend'.

How to do that?

Update: Here is the little more detail:

# "settings.py"

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'frontend',
)

And:

# "frontend/models.py"

class Newpage(models.Model):
    # field here

class Oldpage(models.Model):
    #field here

Upvotes: 39

Views: 52391

Answers (10)

Super Kai - Kazuya Ito
Super Kai - Kazuya Ito

Reputation: 1

For example, if app name is store, then add verbose_name with my store to store/apps.py as shown below:

# "store/apps.py"

from django.apps import AppConfig

class StoreConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'store'
    verbose_name = "my store" # Here

Then, add the code below to "store/init.py":

# "store/__init__.py"

default_app_config = 'store.apps.StoreConfig'

Now, the app name store is changed to my store as shown below:

enter image description here

Upvotes: 4

SANGEETH SUBRAMONIAM
SANGEETH SUBRAMONIAM

Reputation: 1086

in django 3.0+ you just need to change the folder name and inside the apps.py change the "name" inside the "(appname)Config" class to the new name.

Upvotes: 0

FACode
FACode

Reputation: 1061

Yes, you can do it simply

in your apps.py file from your app folder change the verbose_name attribute from your config class. For example:

from django.apps import AppConfig


class FrontendConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'frontend'
    verbose_name = "Your Home Page"

I test it and works in Django 1.10

UPDATE:

In Django 3+ you should add this in your __init__.py file (from your app)

default_app_config = 'frontend.apps.FrontendConfig'

Upvotes: 64

Ormon Saadanbek
Ormon Saadanbek

Reputation: 123

apps.py

from django.apps import AppConfig

class FrontendConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'frontend'
    verbose_name = "Your Home Page"

__ init__.py

default_app_config = 'frontend.apps.FrontendConfig'

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/applications/

Upvotes: 8

Alexandre Paes
Alexandre Paes

Reputation: 131

I am late but just to add an additional step to the solution explained by @FACode.
From the offical docs:

In frontend/apps.py

from django.apps import AppConfig


class FrontendConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'frontend'
    verbose_name = "Your Home Page"

In app/settings.py

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        'frontend.apps.FrontendConfig',
        # ...
    ]

Upvotes: 8

Georgie
Georgie

Reputation: 118

In Django 2 we can use verbose_name in apps.py but we have to specify the CLass Config in init.py

See related doc here

Upvotes: 1

hanou23
hanou23

Reputation: 49

In apps.py

 from django.apps import AppConfig
 class AccountConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'app name'
    verbose_name = "new app name"

Upvotes: 3

Akhilraj N S
Akhilraj N S

Reputation: 9457

In stars/app.py

from django.apps import AppConfig


class RequestsConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'stars'
    verbose_name = "Star of India"

in stars/init.py

default_app_config = 'stars.apps.RequestsConfig'

To access the app name in custom menu methods you can try to get that from

model._meta.app_config.verbose_name

Check the Django Doc for reference https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/applications/#for-application-users

Upvotes: 18

seddonym
seddonym

Reputation: 17229

It sounds like you are trying to change how the appname is listed within the Django Admin? This wasn't possible before Django 1.7, but now you can do it like this:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/applications/#for-application-users

Upvotes: 2

wolendranh
wolendranh

Reputation: 4292

1.Try to add app_label to your model that will be registered in Admin.

class MyModel(models.Model):
        pass
    class Meta:
        app_label = 'My APP name'

UPDATE: 2. Steps to rename app(folders):

  • Rename the folder which is in your project root
  • Change any references to your app in their dependencies, i.e. the app's views, the urls.py and settings.py files.
  • Edit the database table django_content_type with the following command: UPDATE django_content_type SET app_label='' WHERE app_label=''
  • Also if you have models, you will have to rename the model tables. For postgres use ALTER TABLE _modelName RENAME TO _modelName. For renaming models, you'll need to change django_content_type.name Note: If your models.py 's Meta Class has app_name listed, make sure to rename that too.

Upvotes: 4

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