Staff

An admin interface for staff users.

The Plain Staff is a new packages built from the ground up. It leverages class-based views and standard URLs and templates to provide a flexible admin where you can quickly create your own pages and cards, in addition to models.

• cards
• dashboards
• diy forms
• detached from login (do your own login (oauth, passkeys, etc))

Installation

• install plain.staff and plain.htmx, add plain.staff.admin and plain.htmx to installed packages
• add url

Models in the admin

Dashboards

{% load toolbar %}

More specific settings can be found below.

Tailwind CSS

This package is styled with Tailwind CSS, and pairs well with plain-tailwind.

If you are using your own Tailwind implementation, you can modify the "content" in your Tailwind config to include any Plain packages:

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
  content: [
    // ...
    ".venv/lib/python*/site-packages/plain*/**/*.{html,js}",
  ],
  // ...
}

If you aren't using Tailwind, and don't intend to, open an issue to discuss other options.

plain.requestlog

The request log stores a local history of HTTP requests and responses during plain work (Django runserver).

The request history will make it easy to see redirects, 400 and 500 level errors, form submissions, API calls, webhooks, and more.

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Requests can be re-submitted by clicking the "replay" button.

Installation

# settings.py
INSTALLED_PACKAGES += [
    "plainrequestlog",
]

MIDDLEWARE = MIDDLEWARE + [
    # ...
    "plainrequestlog.RequestLogMiddleware",
]

The default settings can be customized if needed:

# settings.py
DEV_REQUESTS_IGNORE_PATHS = [
    "/sw.js",
    "/favicon.ico",
    "/staff/jsi18n/",
]
DEV_REQUESTS_MAX = 50

Tailwind CSS

This package is styled with Tailwind CSS, and pairs well with plain-tailwind.

If you are using your own Tailwind implementation, you can modify the "content" in your Tailwind config to include any Plain packages:

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
  content: [
    // ...
    ".venv/lib/python*/site-packages/plain*/**/*.{html,js}",
  ],
  // ...
}

If you aren't using Tailwind, and don't intend to, open an issue to discuss other options.

plain.impersonate

See what your users see.

A key feature for providing customer support is to be able to view the site through their account. With impersonate installed, you can impersonate a user by finding them in the Django admin and clicking the "Impersonate" button.

Then with the staff toolbar enabled, you'll get a notice of the impersonation and a button to exit:

Installation

To impersonate users, you need the app, middleware, and URLs:

# settings.py
INSTALLED_PACKAGES = INSTALLED_PACKAGES + [
  "plain.staff.impersonate",
]

MIDDLEWARE = MIDDLEWARE + [
  "plain.staff.impersonate.ImpersonateMiddleware",
]

# urls.py
urlpatterns = [
    # ...
    path("impersonate/", include("plain.staff.impersonate.urls")),
]

Settings

By default, all staff users can impersonate other users.

# settings.py
IMPERSONATE_ALLOWED = lambda user: user.is_staff
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