On Mar 10, 9:44 am, David Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9 Mar 2008, at 11:23 pm, Brandon Taylor wrote: > > > I'm in my 2nd day of using Django, and there are a couple of things > > I'd like to do, in regards to adding functionality to the outstanding > > admin interface. These are age-old topics I'm sure, so I thought I'd > > consult the community for best practices. > > > First, I will need to build order-able lists. Typically I've just > > added a "position" column, and then implemented a flavor of drag-n- > > drop to change the order, either through script.aculo.us or jQuery, > > firing an Ajax call to do the ordering. > > > Second, sometimes I don't want to show all of the properties in the > > model via the admin, like the "position" column. > > > I found the Django Snippets website, but I don't see a recipe for the > > aforementioned tasks. I'm very impressed with Django so far. I've had > > to write a paltry amount of code to accomplish a great deal. Even less > > than Rails, which, till now, I didn't think could happen. > > > So, if anyone could give me some pointers on extending the admin, I > > would be very grateful! > > Brandon, > > Whilst there are hacky, workaround kind of ways of doing this with > the admin system as it currently is, I suspect if wait until newforms- > admin hits trunk, it'll be a hell of a lot easier to do any admin > customisation you need to do.
Seeing as how you're only on your second day I would recommend switching to newforms-admin. This would then allow you to use some of the helpful tips written by the super-coder who cobbled together this page: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/NewformsHOWTO Your second request (hiding the position field) would be fulfilled by this answer: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/NewformsHOWTO#Q:HowdoIuseupdated_atandcreated_ontypefieldsbutstopthembeingdisplayed Regards, Felix --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
