django-controlcenter 0.3.2

Set of widgets to build dashboards for your Django-project.

Get all your project models on one single page with charts and whistles.

Attention!

Unfortunately, I have no time to add new features. Please make PR if you need one:

• branch from master

• provide tests

• add docs

• update changelog

That’s it.

Rationale

Django-admin is a great tool to control your project activity: new orders, comments, replies, users, feedback – everything is here. The only struggle is to switch between all those pages constantly just to check them out for new entries.

With django-controlcenter you can have all of your models on one single page and build beautiful charts with Chartist.js. Actually they don’t even have to be a django models, get your data from wherever you want: RDBMS, NOSQL, text file or even from an external web-page, it doesn’t matter.

Quickstart

Install django-controlcenter:

pip install -U django-controlcenter

Create a dashboard file with unlimited number of widgets and dashboards:

from controlcenter import Dashboard, widgets
from project.app.models import Model

class ModelItemList(widgets.ItemList):
    model = Model
    list_display = ('pk', 'field')

class MyDashboard(Dashboard):
    widgets = (
        ModelItemList,
    )

Update settings file:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'controlcenter',
    ...
]

CONTROLCENTER_DASHBOARDS = (
    ('mydash', 'project.dashboards.MyDashboard'),
)

Plug in urls:

from django.urls import path
from django.contrib import admin
from controlcenter.views import controlcenter

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/dashboard/', controlcenter.urls),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    ...
]

Open /admin/dashboard/mydash/ in browser.

Documentation

Check out the docs for more complete examples.

Compatibility

Tested on py 3.5—3.10 and django 1—4.

Credits

This project uses Chartist.js, Masonry.js and Sortable.js.

Changelog

0.3.2

• Automatically redirect the main app url to the first dashboard. Thanks to @fabiocaccamo.

0.3.1

• Support django 4.0, python 3.10. Thanks to @mick88.

• Fixed LineChart example. Thanks to @virtosubogdan.

0.3.0

• Support django 3.0

• Python 3 only

0.2.9

• chartist-plugin-pointlabels temporary fix

• Added sorting triangles to ItemList

• ItemList header is now always displayed regardless sortability

• Other misc improvements

Thanks to @minusf.

0.2.8

• Fixed key_value_list.html widget template syntax error.

• Fixed attribute typo widget.chartist.point_labels -> point_lables.

Thanks to @minusf.

0.2.7

• New TimeSeriesChart widget. Thanks to @pjdelport.

• New “simple” widgets: ValueList and KeyValueList. Thanks to @tonysyu.

• Bunch of fixes and improvements, thanks again to @pjdelport.

0.2.6

• Fixed navigation menu links, thanks to @editorgit

0.2.5

• It’s now possible to use slugs for dashboards instead of those indexes in CONTROLCENTER_DASHBOARDS. The old behaviour is supported too.

0.2.4

• It’s compatible with django 1.8—2.1 now

• Custom app name can be passed to ControlCenter class

0.2.3

• Updated column grid, thanks to @pauloxnet.

• Grammar fixes, thanks to @danielquinn.

• It’s should be possible now to use a custom dashboard view with a custom template.

0.2.2

• dashboard.html now extends admin/base_site.html instead of admin/base.html in order to display branding block. Thanks to @chadgh.

• Updated jsonify tag filter, thanks to @k8n.

0.2.1

• Django 1.10 support. Tested in tox only.

• Updated the SingleBarChart example, thanks to @greeve.

0.2.0

• Unlimited dashboards support.

• Configuration constructor is moved to a separate project – django-pkgconf. It’s a dependency now.

0.1.2

• Chart i series color fix. Thanks to @uncleNight.

• Docs. Finally.

0.1.1

• Better responsive experience.

0.1.0

• First public release.