Django custom view into admin page

Question

I have created a custom view.

How can I insert the view into the admin?

For a normal admin class, we can just simply register it to the admin site:

class ListAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
   ...

admin.site.register(List, ListAdmin)

I tried to override get_url in admin.py, question_list is the view:

class ListAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    def list_view(self, request):
        return question_list(request)

    def get_urls(self):
        urls = super(ListAdmin, self).get_urls()
        list_urls = patterns('', r'^list/$', self.list_view())

        return list_urls + urls

admin.site.register(question_list, ListAdmin)

This is the question_list view:

def question_list(request):
    #questions = Question.objects.filter(topic__icontains = 1)
    questions = Question.objects.all()
    return render_to_response('admin/question_list.html', {'questions':questions})
question_list = staff_member_required(question_list)

I get 'function' object is not iterable error.

Thanks.

I just want to add a custom view into the site administrator. I have create a view in views.py. How can I add it into admin in admin.py? — kelvin, Apr 17 '11 at 12:45
What does the view do? You can subclass your ModelAdmin to filter the queryset etc. But usually you would render your custon view with it's individual template in the frontend. — arie, Apr 17 '11 at 12:48
For example I have created a view: 'code' def question_list(request): #questions = Question.objects.filter(topic__icontains = 1) questions = Question.objects.all() return render_to_response('admin/question_list.html', {'questions':questions}) 'code' How can I add this view into admin.py? — kelvin, Apr 17 '11 at 13:08

score 21 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 16 '17 at 17:14

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Based on the information you provided you should check this part of Django's documentation:

Adding views to admin sites (note: the link is valid for version 1.5 since version 1.3 is not supported anymore - the solution is still valid).

Then you could check this blog post and this question for some further inspiration and details.

Based on your example I really don't get why you just don't use a regular ModelAdmin with some filtering options:

class QuestionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_filter = ('topic',)

edited Jul 16 '17 at 17:14

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answered Apr 17 '11 at 13:08

arie

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The link to the blog post ist dead. – Joseph Tura Mar 08 '12 at 12:42
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Yes, it is. "Page cannot be crawled or displayed due to robots.txt." – Cerin Jul 08 '14 at 20:17
I edited the document to reflect a live url for the solution. However, it should be kept up-to-date since Django 1.5 could be unsupported in one or two years at most. – Luis Masuelli Jul 17 '14 at 15:07
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Here's the updated link: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/contrib/admin/#adding-views-to-admin-sites – Troy Grosfield Apr 02 '16 at 21:56
Updated blog post link. It is still on his site on the same URL. – Animesh Jul 16 '17 at 17:15

Danny W. Adair · Answer 2 · 2011-04-17T20:41:15.490

The pattern gets a view, not the result of calling the view, i.e.:

list_urls = patterns('', r'^list/$', self.list_view())

should be

list_urls = patterns('', r'^list/$', self.list_view)

Also, "list_view" (at this stage) is a view like any other. So it will need to return an HttpResponse object.

def list_view(self, request):
    return question_list(request)

You're not showing the code for question_list() but I have the suspicion it is not returning an HttpResponse.

P.S.: If you provided the traceback of the "'function' object is not iterable" exception (you're getting this when visiting "list/" ?) there'd be less guesswork.

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 19 '14 at 20:14

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Here's an example of everything needed to add (as of Django 1.6) for a custom page that will be linked to from a button next to the "History" button in the top right of an object's detail page:

https://gist.github.com/mattlong/4b64212e096766e058b7

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this page is not avilable now – user168983 Oct 25 '16 at 13:45
patterns tuples are now plain old lists also the change_form.html {% block.super %} should be {{ block.super }} – Niall Farrington Jul 19 '17 at 13:54

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 17 '11 at 13:11

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You should override get_urls in you ModelAdmin subclass.

answered Apr 17 '11 at 13:11

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