Inlines, Uneditable Fields, and ModelAdmin Methods
Explore how to enhance Django Admin interfaces by adding inline related models, showing readonly fields, and overriding ModelAdmin methods like save_model and get_queryset. This lesson helps you customize admin views for improved data handling and user tracking.
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Using inlines
Now, you will focus on adding some functionalities to change_view pages (page to create or edit a model instance). Sometimes, it can be useful when editing a model to see or add foreign key values too. For example, you could say that when editing an author, we would like to add or see his questions.
To do this, you will use the inlines keyword:
class QuestionInline(admin.TabularInline):
model = Question
class AuthorAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
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inlines = [QuestionInline,]
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First, you need to define a new class QuestionInline which inherits from admin.TabularInline or admin.StackedInline, and then, in your AuthorAdmin, you will specify the inlines class name with inlines=[QuestionInline,].
As a result, Django admin will ...