How to imitate new app in Django admin

Question

I have few models in my Django app. How do I imitate another app to create app section for one of my models in admin interface?

When you create new app and register models in it, you see new section for this app in admin panel. I want to make new section without creating new app — Dmitry Sazhnev, Jul 18 '18 at 07:20
Register your models with admin.site.register(your model). https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/ref/contrib/admin/#modeladmin-objects — doubleo46, Jul 18 '18 at 07:29

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 18 '18 at 08:46

The AdminSite is responsible for creating the index page. The process is as such:

_build_app_dict builds a dictionary containing various data (including model._meta.app_label) of all models registered with the given site
get_app_list turns that dictionary into a list sorted by app label and by model (verbose) name
the index method/view adds that app_list to the template context
the template (specified by AdminSite.index_template) is rendered

If all you want to do, is alter the appearance of the index page (say by adding a 'fake' app to group your models differently), creating a custom AdminSite and hooking into any of the four steps above might be a cleaner way than messing with the internal app registry.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 18 '18 at 08:07

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You can try changing the app_label of your models you want to move:

class Meta:
    app_label = 'new_section'

Just make sure to adapt the FK and M2M fields accordingly.
See this answer.

answered Jul 18 '18 at 08:07

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