Django - custom admin page not model related
I am using Django 1.7 with Mezzanine. I would like to have some page in the admin area where employees can call some actions (control commands, etc.) using buttons and other controls.
I would also like to avoid creating a new model or manually create a template and add a link to it (if possible).
What are the most common / cleanest ways to achieve this?
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It's actually easier. Just before urlpatterns in urls.py patch the admin url like this:
def get_admin_urls(urls):
def get_urls():
my_urls = patterns('',
url(r'^$', YourCustomView,name='home'),
)
return my_urls + urls
return get_urls
admin.autodiscover()
admin_urls = get_admin_urls(admin.site.get_urls())
admin.site.get_urls = admin_urls
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ModelAdmin.get_urls
allows you to add a url to the admin address. So you can add your own view like this:
class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
def get_urls(self):
urls = super(MyModelAdmin, self).get_urls()
my_urls = patterns('',
(r'^my_view/$', self.my_view)
)
return my_urls + urls
def my_view(self, request):
# custom view which should return an HttpResponse
pass
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.get_urls
I haven't tried this, but it seems to me that you can subclass the built-in admin view and let your custom template extend the built-in admin templates.
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