Creating Custom Admin Views - Django AdminPlus

Any view can be used as a custom admin view in AdminPlus. All the normal rules apply: accept a request and possibly other parameters, return a response, and you’re good.

Making views look like the rest of the admin is pretty straight-forward, too.

Extending the Admin Templates¶

AdminPlus contains an base template you can easily extend. It includes the breadcrumb boilerplate. You can also extend admin/base_site.html directly.

Your view should pass a title value to the template to make things pretty.

Here’s an example template:

{# myapp/admin/myview.html #}
{% extends 'django_sb_adminplus/base.html' %}

{% block content %}
    {# Do what you gotta do. #}
{% endblock %}

That’s pretty much it! Now here’s how you use it:

# myapp/admin.py
# Using AdminPlus
from django.contrib import admin
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext

def myview(request):
    # Fanciness.
    return render_to_response(
        'myapp/admin/myview.html',
        {'title': 'My View'},
        RequestContext(request, {})
    )

admin.site.register_view('mypath', myview, 'My View')

Or, you can use it as a decorator:

from django.contrib import admin

@admin.site.register_view
def myview(request):
    # Fancy goes here.
    return render_to_response(...)

Voila! Instant custom admin page that looks great.