django-smart-admin

SmartAdmin is a set of small Django Admin utilities that aims to remove some of the common annoying configuration issues:

It is not intended to be a fully replacement of the official Admin, but only offers a set of mixin/utilities the often ( at least for me) need to be copied/pasted in each project.

Bonus

easily group models by context instead by app
display admin logentry for any user
display group members
display user permissions
display permission owners
Display all columns ModelAdmin mixin
log added/removed permissions for User/Group
log added/removed groups for User
ability to set readonly_fields = ('__all__',) (ReadOnlyMixin)
display all model fields in changelist (DisplayAllMixin)
automatically creates filter for each indexed field (SmartAutoFilterMixin)
improved fieldset allows the use of __others__ to include any field not included in others fieldsets (FieldsetMixin)
ability to customise Autocomplete labels
user defined "site panels"

Components

LinkedObjectsMixin
ReadOnlyMixin
FieldsetMixin
DisplayAllMixin

Install

pip install django-smart-admin

or (if you want to install extra admin features)

pip install django-smart-admin[full]

In your settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # "django.contrib.admin",  # removes standard django admin
    'django_sysinfo',  # optional
    'adminactions',  # optional
    'adminfilters',  # optional
    'admin_extra_buttons',  # optional

    'smart_admin.apps.SmartTemplateConfig',  # templates
    'smart_admin',  # use this instead of 'django.contrib.admin'

    'smart_admin.apps.SmartLogsConfig',  # optional:  log application
    'smart_admin.apps.SmartAuthConfig',  # optional: django.contrib.auth enhancements

]
SMART_ADMIN_SECTIONS = {
    'Demo': ['demo', ],
    'Security': ['auth',
                 'auth.User',
                 ],

    'Logs': ['admin.LogEntry',
             ],
    'Other': [],
    '_hidden_': ["sites"]
}

# add some bookmark
SMART_ADMIN_BOOKMARKS = [('GitHub', 'https://github.com/saxix/django-smart-admin')]

# no special permissions to see bookmarks
SMART_ADMIN_BOOKMARKS_PERMISSION = None

# add 'profile' link on the header
SMART_ADMIN_PROFILE_LINK = True

# display all users action log, not only logged user
SMART_ADMIN_ANYUSER_LOG = True

In your urls.py

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import include, path
import adminactions.actions as actions
from django.contrib.admin import site

admin.autodiscover()
actions.add_to_site(site)

urlpatterns = [
    path('', admin.site.urls),
    path('adminactions/', include('adminactions.urls')),
]

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