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user711643

Reputation: 297

Create custom actions in Django admin site (not list actions)

I'm new to django and I'm trying to figure out how to create custom actions inside admin site. Let's say I want to create some sort of custom form with fancy ajax based ui. What I would normally do in .NET/PHP/Ruby is prepare some js code and a service that will be called via ajax and return json or even html. A more concrete example could be an auto complete box to manage a many to one relationship. What should I do to build such a system inside the django admin site? (I know there are a couple of ready to use solution for this. But I'm not interested: just for study purposes).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1183

Answers (2)

Paulo Scardine
Paulo Scardine

Reputation: 77251

In this particular case (a fancier widget), ModelAdmin has several useful hooks like ModelAdmin.form and ModelAdmin.formfield_overrides.

Creating a custom Django Form Widget is more elegant, but if the widget is pure JS (like many jQuery widgets), most of the time it is not worth - just override the change_form.html admin template for the Model in question.

Upvotes: 2

arie
arie

Reputation: 18972

You can easily change the form and the template of the ModelAdmin.

So you're free to inject any CSS and JS you like. Take look at this presentation to get the basic idea.

Upvotes: 1

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