pip install django-msms-admin

Intelligent management for multiple subclass models in django's admin site.

Install

pip install django-msms-admin

Installed Classes

• DjangoMsmsModelAbstractBase

  The base model must inherit from DjangoMsmsModelAbstractBase class. It provides app_label, model_name, type_name fields and auto save the values.

• DjangoMsmsAdmin

  The base model admin must inherit from DjangoMsmsAdmin class.

• DjangoSubclassAdmin

  All subclass models' admin must inherit from DjangoSubclassAdmin class.

Configurations

• DjangoMsmsAdmin.subclasses

  The config item is used to provide choices in select_subclass_model_view. If NOT provide, the system will auto find all registered subclasses. The structure of subclasses is a three-level-tree. e.g.

  subclasses = [{
      "title": "category1",
      "children": [{
          "title": "category11",
          "children: [
              Model1,
              Model2,
              Model3,
          ]
      },{
          "title": "category12",
          "children": [
              Model4,
              Model5,
              Model6,
          ]
      }]
  },{
      "title": "category2",
      "children": [{
          "title": "category21",
          "children": [
              Model7,
              Model8,
          ]
      },{
          "title": "category22,
          "children": [
              Model9,
          ]
      }]
  }]
  

• DjangoMsmsModelAbstractBase.cascade_select_description

• DjangoMsmsModelAbstractBase.cascade_select_image

  Config item cascade_select_description and cascade_select_image are use to display more information while you selected a subclass. cascade_select_image is url string of an image.

Usage

pro/settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'django_simple_tags',
    'django_static_jquery3',
    'django_msms_admin',
    ...
]

app/model.py

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags.staticfiles import static
from django_msms_admin.models import DjangoMsmsModelAbstractBase

class Book(DjangoMsmsModelAbstractBase, models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=64)
    author = models.CharField(max_length=64)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

class ComputerBook(Book):
    serial = models.CharField(max_length=64)

    cascade_select_description = "These books are all about computers."
    cascade_select_image = static("app/img/computer-book.jpg")

class NovelBook(Book):
    country = models.CharField(max_length=64)

app/admin.py

from django.contrib import admin
from django_msms_admin.admin import DjangoMsmsAdmin
from django_msms_admin.admin import DjangoSubclassAdmin

from .models import Book
from .models import ComputerBook
from .models import NovelBook

class BookAdmin(DjangoMsmsAdmin, admin.ModelAdmin):

    list_display = ["title", "author", "type_name"]
    list_filter = ["type_name"]


admin.site.register(Book, BookAdmin)
admin.site.register(ComputerBook, DjangoSubclassAdmin)
admin.site.register(NovelBook, DjangoSubclassAdmin)

Release

v0.1.0 2020/03/03

• First release.

v0.1.1 2020/03/05

• Add DjangoMsmsModelAbstractBase.get_real_object method.

v0.1.2 2020/03/06

• Fix keywords in setup.py and read requirements.txt for install_requires.

v0.2.0 2020/03/07

• Use model's msms_category, msm_priority property to do model category and sorting.
• Rename cascade_select_description to msms_description.
• Rename cascade_select_preview_image to msms_image.

v0.2.1 2020/09/09

• No depends on django-static-jquery3.
• Using media.css & media.js to render css/js links.
• Add LICENSE file.

v0.2.2 2023/09/18

• Doc update.