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Morchuboo
Morchuboo

Reputation: 195

Group models in django admin

Is there any way to group the models in django admin interface?

I currently have an app called requests with the following models showing in the admin site:

**Requests**
Divisions
Hardware Requests
Hardware Types
Requests
Software Requests
Software Types

I would like the divisions, Software Requests and Hardware Requests to be grouped separately in a "Types" group. I know I could override and hard code the admin/index.html and base_site.html but this seems rather convoluted just to specify grouping.

Is there anything i can add to the Meta class to specify a group name?

The only way I have found so far to achieve what i want is to move the models to a new app within requests ("requests.Types") but again, doesn't feel like its the 'correct way'.

Upvotes: 18

Views: 8166

Answers (2)

jox
jox

Reputation: 2368

You can do it using django-modeladmin-reorder.

You'd configure it somehow along these lines then (settings.py):

ADMIN_REORDER = (
    {'app': 'requests', 'label': 'Types',
        'models': (
            'requests.Divisions',
            'requests.HardwareRequests',
            'requests.HardwareTypes'
        )
   },
   {'app': 'requests', 'label': 'Other models',
        'models': (
            'requests.Requests',
            'requests.SoftwareRequests',
            'requests.SoftwareTypes'
        )
   },
)

Upvotes: 14

James Bennett
James Bennett

Reputation: 11163

There isn't anything you can put in the model definition to do this, because models -- by design -- don't know about the existence of the admin, or how they'll be presented in the admin.

This really is a case where you just write a template that does what you want, and use it; all you're asking for is a presentational change, and templates are where you do presentation in Django.

Upvotes: 9

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