Oh, I see it's much easier to solve this problem by overriding the admin index view by putting something like this in the main URLconf:
(r'^admin/$', 'admin_views.dashboard'), and then putting my dashboard view (and other custom views) into an admin_views.py file in the site root. As described here: http://www.djangobook.com/en/1.0/chapter17/ Ben. On Nov 18, 2:50 pm, bjudson <b...@eatworms.org> wrote: > Hi- > I'm very new to Django, and trying to set up a site with a customized > admin section. Specifically, I'm trying to override the default admin > index page with stats & useful links. This will require more than just > modifying the template, so I'm trying to create a new AdminSite > instance as described here: > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#adminsite-obj... > > However, this is description is a bit vague... am I supposed to create > a new app folder for the AdminSite, with views.py, urls.py, etc? I > can't find any clear descriptions of this process -- if anyone has > simple code snippets that would be very helpful > > thanks. > Ben. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=.
