Custom Fields

Adding custom fields

So far you have seen that you can use list_display to display model fields in the list page of the admin. But it is also possible to display a custom field that does not exist in the model.

For instance, if you want to display a new field in a new column to indicate that a question has been published or will be published in the future, you can create a has_been_published function inside the QuestionAdmin class and also add this property to the list_display list:

list_display = ('question_text', 'refAuthor', 'has_been_published', 'pub_date', 'createdDate', 'updatedDate',)
list_display_links = ('question_text', 'refAuthor',)

def has_been_published(self, obj):
	present = datetime.now()
	return obj.pub_date.date() <

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