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Django 3 By Example

You're reading from   Django 3 By Example Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838981952
Length 568 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Antonio Melé Antonio Melé
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building a Blog Application 2. Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features FREE CHAPTER 3. Extending Your Blog Application 4. Building a Social Website 5. Sharing Content on Your Website 6. Tracking User Actions 7. Building an Online Shop 8. Managing Payments and Orders 9. Extending Your Shop 10. Building an E-Learning Platform 11. Rendering and Caching Content 12. Building an API 13. Building a Chat Server 14. Going Live 15. Other Books You May Enjoy
16. Index

Extending the administration site with custom views

Sometimes, you may want to customize the administration site beyond what is possible through configuring ModelAdmin, creating administration actions, and overriding administration templates. You might want to implement additional functionalities that are not available in existing administration views or templates. If this is the case, you need to create a custom administration view. With a custom view, you can build any functionality you want; you just have to make sure that only staff users can access your view and that you maintain the administration look and feel by making your template extend an administration template.

Let's create a custom view to display information about an order. Edit the views.py file of the orders application and add the following code to it:

from django.contrib.admin.views.decorators import staff_member_required
from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404
from .models import Order
@staff_member_required...
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