Ordering the display items by row-id in Django-Admin

Question

I have a table of static data, loaded via initial_data.json. The admin interface apparently displays the data ordered by descending pk; i.e. the records with the largest pk are at the top of list. I would like to reverse this, ideally by using the pk value. Since it's static data, I could add another column for the sort order, but that would essentially duplicate the pk values, or I could, when generating my fixture file, use "pk=len(data)-i" instead of the "pk=i" that I'm currently using. But really, I'd like to just say something like this:

class DataAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    ordering = ('row_id',)

I've tried using 'row_id', 'id', and 'pk', without success. Does anyone have any ideas beffore I go source-diving? Thanks!

See this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3625641/django-queryset-custom-ordering-by-id — Miguel-F, Jan 24 '13 at 18:15
Hi! **it work** for me with "ordering = ('id')" in the model admin... (using django 2.4 and python 2.7). I think it should be ordering= ('pk',) and that may be a django improvement idea. — Guillaume Gendre, Feb 11 '13 at 09:21

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 13:03

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Put the ordering on the actual model in its Meta class

class YourModel(models.Model):
    class Meta:
        ordering = ['pk']

edited Jun 20 '20 at 13:03

Nabin

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answered Jan 24 '13 at 18:19

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That does exactly what I needed. Thanks! – samwyse Jan 24 '13 at 18:45
When trying this in Django 1.10 with Python 3, this solution gives me the id of the model pointed to by the Through model, rather than the Through model's own `pk`. – Mike 'Pomax' Kamermans Aug 23 '17 at 01:02

Ordering the display items by row-id in Django-Admin

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