A simple django app to make the lookup of generic models easier.
If used with grappelli only the model select is rendered a little nicer. The rest is done by grappelli.
To install add it to your INSTALLED_APPS setting. There is no need to
run manage.py syncdb because django-genericadmin does not have any models.
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'genericadmin',
...
)
If you are using the staticfiles app, then run manage.py collectstatic and you should be
good to go.
If you don't know what I'm talking about or your django version < 1.3, then you
should link or copy genericadmin/media/js/ to your asset directory and set
GENERICADMIN_JS to a the relative destination of your just copied files.
To use django-genericadmin your model admin class must inherit from
GenericAdminModelAdmin.
So a model admin like
class NavBarEntryAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
pass
admin.site.register(NavBarEntry, NavBarEntryAdmin)
becomes
from genericadmin.admin import GenericAdminModelAdmin
class NavBarEntryAdmin(GenericAdminModelAdmin):
pass
admin.site.register(NavBarEntry, NavBarEntryAdmin)
That's it.
To use django-genericadmin with admin inlines, your models must inherit from
GenericAdminModelAdmin as described above:
from genericadmin.admin import GenericAdminModelAdmin
class NavBarEntryAdmin(GenericAdminModelAdmin):
pass
admin.site.register(NavBarEntry, NavBarEntryAdmin)
Additionally the inline classes must inherit from either GenericStackedInline
or GenericTabularInline:
from genericadmin.admin import GenericAdminModelAdmin, GenericTabularInline
class PagesInline(GenericTabularInline):
model = ...
class NavBarEntryAdmin(GenericAdminModelAdmin):
inlines = [PagesInline, ]
...
Note that you can't mix and match. If you're going to use a generic inline,
the class using it must inherit from GenericAdminModelAdmin.
Specific content types can be removed from the content type select list. Example:
class NavBarEntryAdmin(GenericAdminModelAdmin):
content_type_blacklist = ('auth/group', 'auth/user', )
Specific content types that can be display from the content type select list. Example:
class NavBarEntryAdmin(GenericAdminModelAdmin):
content_type_whitelist = ('auth/message', )
Note that this only happens on the client; there is no enforcement of the blacklist at the model level.