{"id":75644,"date":"2020-01-20T11:25:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T05:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/?p=75644"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:17:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T08:47:14","slug":"customizing-the-admin-interface-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/customizing-the-admin-interface-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Customizing the Admin Interface"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can customize the way the admin interface looks and behaves in a number of ways. As it stands now, the change list for our books shows only the string representation of the model we added to its __str__. This works fine for just a few books, but if we had hundreds or thousands of books, it would be very hard to locate a single needle in the haystack. However, we can easily add some display, searching, and filtering functions to this interface. Change the Admin declaration as follows:<\/p>\n

class Book(models.Model):\ntitle = models.CharField(maxlength=100)\nauthors = models.ManyToManyField(Author)\npublisher = models.ForeignKey(Publisher)\npublication_date = models.DateField()\n\nclass Admin:\nlist_display = ('title', 'publisher', 'publication_date')\nlist_filter = ('publisher', 'publication_date')\nordering = ('-publication_date',)\nsearch_fields = ('title',)<\/pre>\n
These four lines of code dramatically change our list interface, as shown in Figure 6-8.<\/p>\n
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Figure 6-8. Modified change list page<\/p>\n
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Each of those lines instructed the admin interface to construct a different piece of this interface:<\/p>\n