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Django 3 Web Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Django 3 Web Development Cookbook Actionable solutions to common problems in Python web development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838987428
Length 608 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Jake Kronika Jake Kronika
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Django 3.0 2. Models and Database Structure FREE CHAPTER 3. Forms and Views 4. Templates and JavaScript 5. Custom Template Filters and Tags 6. Model Administration 7. Security and Performance 8. Hierarchical Structures 9. Importing and Exporting Data 10. Bells and Whistles 11. Testing 12. Deployment 13. Maintenance 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a category administration interface with django-mptt-admin

The django-mptt app comes with a simple model administration mixin that allows you to create a tree structure and list it with indentation. To reorder trees, you need to either create this functionality yourself or use a third-party solution. One app that can help you to create a draggable administration interface for hierarchical models is django-mptt-admin. Let's take a look at it in this recipe.

Getting ready

First, set up the categories app as described in the previous, Creating hierarchical categories with django-mptt recipe. Then, we need to install the django-mptt-admin app by performing the following steps:

  1. Install the app in your virtual environment...
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