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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

You're reading from   Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer Discover best practices, tooling, and solutions for writing and organizing Django applications in production

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801073639
Length 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Starting a Project
2. Chapter 1: Undertaking a Colossal Project FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Project Configuration 4. Chapter 3: Models, Relations, and Inheritance 5. Part 2 – Django Components
6. Chapter 4: URLs, Views, and Templates 7. Chapter 5: Django Forms 8. Chapter 6: Exploring the Django Admin Site 9. Chapter 7: Working with Messages, Email Notifications, and PDF Reports 10. Part 3 – Advanced Django Components
11. Chapter 8: Working with the Django REST Framework 12. Chapter 9: Django Testing 13. Chapter 10: Database Management 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring admin class options

Django provides admin class options for customizing the Django admin site interface directly. In this section, we will go through some of the most important and widely used options and provide examples of how to use them. We don't have enough room to discuss them all in great detail.

For a complete breakdown of how to use any of the options available, visit the official Django documentation, found here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/contrib/admin/#modeladmin-options.

The following options have been broken down into categories based on what view type they relate to (changelist view, change or add view, and just the add view).

Note

Before adding any of the options to your admin classes, remember to remove the pass statement that was previously written for that class as a placeholder.

Changelist view-related options

These options relate to an admin class on the changelist view page, such as those listed here:

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