Gain insights into the Django Admin interface, learn about automatic generation, data management, custom functionalities, advanced UI customization, and explore admin rights permission management.

The Django Admin Ultimate Guide_Stripe API Integration copy.png

Django.tar.gz

django

django-lesson1

django-faker

django-rebranding

django-user-management

django-rebranding-changelist

django-migrations

django-add-view-index

empty

django-rebranding-old

In this course, you will learn the basics of the Django Admin interface, a great tool to build a powerful admin interface quickly for your Django project. 

First, you will learn how to automatically generate the admin interface for your Django models, how to populate fake data, and then search or filter data with some advice to improve performance. 

Next, you will see how to extend the functionalities of the admin interface such as adding custom fields, add intermediate pages, or creating custom actions like exporting data in CSV format.

After that, you will also explore basic and advanced UI customization such as adding charts or modifying the index page.Finally, you will have a look at the Django admin rights permission management.

The Django Admin for Web Developers

# Displaying a database view

Sometimes you want to display data which comes from a database view and not from a Django model. It is really easy to do that. You just need to declare the model corresponding to the view in your `models.py` file but with the specific keyword `managed=False` in the class `Meta` and tell Django the database table name:

```python
class QuestionSummary(models.Model):
	month = models.DateField()
	nbQuestionsByMonth = models.IntegerField()
	class Meta:
		managed = False
		db_table = 'app_questionsummary'
```
Then, you can reference the model in the `admin.py` as usual.

```python
admin.site.register(QuestionSummary)
```
or

```python
@admin.register(QuestionSummary)
class QuestionSummaryAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
...
```

This will not work at the moment, because the referenced table does not exist. But you should know this for when you come across this use case.

# Proxying a model

If you want to display a model twice in the Django Admin (for whatever reason), you will not be able to simply add it twice in the `admin.py` file. First, you will need to create a proxy in the `models.py` file.

```python
class AuthorClone(Author):
	class Meta:
		proxy=True
		verbose_name_plural = "The Authors clone"
```
Our proxy is abstracting the `Author` class. Then, you can create and register it in the `admin.py`.

```python
class AuthorCloneAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
	fieldsets = [
	    ("Author information", {'fields': ['name','createdDate','updatedDate']}),
	]
	list_display = ('name','createdDate','updatedDate',)
	search_fields = ('name',)

admin.site.register(AuthorClone, AuthorCloneAdmin)
```
Now, if you check our Django admin page, you will see your author's clone displayed in your list.

Learn how to display a database view and create proxy models.

Getting Started

Design Customization

Advanced Customization

Access and Rights Management

Conclusion

Database View and Proxy Model

Displaying a database view