Set ordering of Apps and models in Django admin dashboard

Question

By default, the Django admin dashboard looks like this for me:

I want to change the ordering of models in Profile section, so by using codes from here and here I was able to change the ordering of model names in Django admin dashboard:

class MyAdminSite(admin.AdminSite):
    def get_app_list(self, request):
        """
        Return a sorted list of all the installed apps that have been
        registered in this site.
        """
        ordering = {
            "Users": 1,
            "Permissions": 2,
            "Activities": 3,
        }
        app_dict = self._build_app_dict(request)
        # a.sort(key=lambda x: b.index(x[0]))
        # Sort the apps alphabetically.
        app_list = sorted(app_dict.values(), key=lambda x: x['name'].lower())

        # Sort the models alphabetically within each app.
        for app in app_list:
            app['models'].sort(key=lambda x: ordering[x['name']])

        return app_list

mysite = MyAdminSite()
admin.site = mysite
sites.site = mysite

New look and feel:

But as you see, I have lost the AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION section; What should I do to have all the sections and at the same time have my own custom ordering for Profile section?

Same problem with https://stackoverflow.com/questions/398163/ordering-admin-modeladmin-objects — Yang_____, May 01 '23 at 07:01

HiroshiFuu · Answer 1 · 2021-06-30T05:33:27.503

What u can do is just override the get_app_list method.

def get_app_list(self, request):
    """
    Return a sorted list of all the installed apps that have been
    registered in this site.
    """
    # Retrieve the original list
    app_dict = self._build_app_dict(request)
    app_list = sorted(app_dict.values(), key=lambda x: x['name'].lower())

    # Sort the models customably within each app.
    for app in app_list:
        if app['app_label'] == 'auth':
            ordering = {
                'Users': 1,
                'Groups': 2
            }
            app['models'].sort(key=lambda x: ordering[x['name']])

    return app_list

admin.AdminSite.get_app_list = get_app_list

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 06 '19 at 10:20

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Call get_app_list() with super first, like that:

class MyAdminSite(admin.AdminSite):
def get_app_list(self, request):
    all_list = super().get_app_list(request)
    # reorder the app list as you like
    return app_list


mysite = MyAdminSite()
admin.site = mysite
sites.site = mysite

answered Oct 06 '19 at 10:20

Nikita Tonkoskur

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`all_list = super().get_app_list(request)` is still returning only the Profile section and not all the apps and models. – wiki Oct 06 '19 at 11:03

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 15 '23 at 09:44

With the code below in settings.py, you can reorder and hide the apps　including AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION(auth) and models in admin pages. *I use Django 4.1.7 and you can see the original get_app_list() in GitHub and you can see my answer demonstrating how the code below works:

# "settings.py"

ADMIN_ORDERING = (
    ('app2', ('Model3', 'Model1', 'Model2')),
    ('auth', ('User', 'Group')),
    ('app1', ('Model2', 'Model3', 'Model1'))
)

from django.contrib import admin

def get_app_list(self, request, app_label=None):
    app_dict = self._build_app_dict(request, app_label)
    
    if not app_dict:
        return
        
    NEW_ADMIN_ORDERING = []
    if app_label:
        for ao in ADMIN_ORDERING:
            if ao[0] == app_label:
                NEW_ADMIN_ORDERING.append(ao)
                break
    
    if not app_label:
        for app_key in list(app_dict.keys()):
            if not any(app_key in ao_app for ao_app in ADMIN_ORDERING):
                app_dict.pop(app_key)
    
    app_list = sorted(
        app_dict.values(), 
        key=lambda x: [ao[0] for ao in ADMIN_ORDERING].index(x['app_label'])
    )
     
    for app, ao in zip(app_list, NEW_ADMIN_ORDERING or ADMIN_ORDERING):
        if app['app_label'] == ao[0]:
            for model in list(app['models']):
                if not model['object_name'] in ao[1]:
                    app['models'].remove(model)
        app['models'].sort(key=lambda x: ao[1].index(x['object_name']))
    return app_list

admin.AdminSite.get_app_list = get_app_list

Set ordering of Apps and models in Django admin dashboard

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