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Accessing Migration Tables in Django

Learn how to view database tables from the Django administration site.

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To see our database tables and fields on the Django admin page, we have to register our models in the admin.py file and also create a superuser.  

Registering models

To register our model, let’s open the houses/admin.py file. Inside it, we'll see a boilerplate that imports the admin from django.contrib, as shown below:

Python
from django.contrib import admin



# Register your models here.

The first line imports the admin from django.contrib, while the last line is a comment.

Then, we register our models by importing them and calling the admin.site.register to register our respective models:

Python
from django.contrib import admin



from .models import House

from .models import Checker



# Register your models here.



admin.site.register(House)

admin.site.register(Checker)

  • Lines 3–4: We import our House and Checker models from houses.models.

  • Lines 8–9: We call on the admin.site.register to register our respective models.

Now we have ...