I am not sure how useful this will be. You can check it out. https://django-mptt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
Regards, Chetan Ganji +91-900-483-4183 ganji.che...@gmail.com http://ryucoder.in On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 8:13 PM Mike Dewhirst <mi...@dewhirst.com.au> wrote: > Derek > > My phone doesn't do interspersed responses well, so my apologies for top > posting. > > The record to which I refer is any one of those in any list page. > > After clicking one, if that record has any 1:1, 1:n or n:m related > records, their *verbose_name_plural* names will be displayed as dumb > headings with related records appearing below with show/hide links as well > as an 'Add another ...' link. > > I'd like to see the sidebar display links to those (currently) dumb > headings and fetch them to the top. > > Hope that clarifies what I meant despite what I said :-) > > I'll have a look at Django suit in the morning. Thanks for the heads up. > > Cheers > > Mike > > > > -- > (Unsigned mail from my phone) > > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Derek <gamesb...@gmail.com> > Date: 3/5/21 19:42 (GMT+10:00) > To: Django users <django-users@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: Admin layout getting too bulky - what to do? > > Re "So my need is for a fixed vertical sidebar with the same links which > take you to the same list pages." > > This is what I use Django Suit for - it can be located at the top or side > and remains in place across all admin pages. You can add your own items to > the menu (and these can point to non-admin pages - for example, I point to > a page of report URLs which is a non-standard admin page) ; I have never > added menu items "on the fly" so am not sure this is possible. > > I cannot understand your requirement statement "When that page opens for > the record, the sidebar of links should change to the named headings on > that page. When a heading is clicked the page should relocate itself so > that heading is at the top" at all, sorry. Maybe a follow-up post with a > picture (== 1000 words)? > > Derek > > > On Monday, 3 May 2021 at 08:57:25 UTC+2 Mike Dewhirst wrote: > >> OK - I've now looked at some Django Admin templating systems and they >> all seem to solve a different problem than the one I need to ... which >> is ... >> >> Consider the Admin main menu seen at the /admin url after login. If you >> click any of the links they take you to a single page with a list of >> records. So my need is for a fixed vertical sidebar with the same links >> which take you to the same list pages. The vertical sidebar should >> remain unchanged and unmoved on the list page in case the user clicked >> the wrong link. >> >> The next step is to select a record from the list. When that page opens >> for the record, the sidebar of links should change to the named headings >> on that page. When a heading is clicked the page should relocate itself >> so that heading is at the top. The sidebar of links should remain >> unchanged and unmoved in case the user wishes to relocate to a different >> heading. Much like the Django documentation except the sidebar should >> stay where it was when clicked! >> >> At the moment, those headings don't have urls within the page. And the >> (Show/Hide) urls are all just a lone hash '#'. >> >> Therefore my problem is to understand how to include heading name >> anchors and construct a list of urls (including 'top' and bottom') for >> such a sidebar. And of course to understand how to make such a sidebar >> in the first place. >> >> Where might I begin my research? >> >> Thanks >> >> Mike >> >> >> On 2/05/2021 5:26 pm, Mike Dewhirst wrote: >> > My project has a central table with many 1:n and n:m sub-tables. I >> > mean lots of them. It takes forever to keep scrolling up and down the >> > page to find the section of interest and then maybe scroll through >> > some records in that section before clicking (SHOW) to reveal data. >> > >> > Is there a way I can do a sidebar of links which take the user to >> > specific sections? >> > >> > I have had a look at the contrib layout and it doesn't appear obvious >> > what to do. Especially since they don't pay me enough to play with js >> ;-) >> > >> > Has this been solved before? >> > >> > Thanks for any hints >> > >> > Cheers >> > >> > Mike >> > >> >> >> -- >> Signed email is an absolute defence against phishing. This email has >> been signed with my private key. If you import my public key you can >> automatically decrypt my signature and be sure it came from me. Just >> ask and I'll send it to you. 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