Creating a basic category administration interface with django-treebeard

The django-treebeard app provides its own TreeAdmin, extending from the standard ModelAdmin. This allows you to view tree nodes hierarchically in the administration interface, with interface features dependent upon the tree algorithm used. Let's take a look in this recipe.

Getting ready

First, set up the ideas app and django-treebeard as described in the Creating hierarchical categories with django-treebeard recipe earlier in this chapter. Also, make sure that the static files for django-treebeard are available to your project:

(myproject_env)$ ./manage.py collectstatic

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