Django Admin panel interface

Question

To create admin interface to edit some field, which is best practice? Customize default Django admin or create admin template?

I want to edit status field via admin. But others field, admin can't edit.. In this scenario can I write new view and template for admin or just customize the default admin panel?

class SendProduct(models.Model):
 PAYMENT_CHOICE = (
 ('A', 'Advanced'),
 ('C', 'COD'),
 )
 item_name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
 item_details = models.TextField()
 delivery_address = models.TextField()
 payment_type = models.CharField(max_length=1, choices=PAYMENT_CHOICE)
 payable_amount = models.IntegerField(default=0)
 delivery_charge = models.IntegerField(default=0)
 qr_code = models.ImageField(upload_to='qrcode', blank=True, null=True)
 user = models.ForeignKey(Profile, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
 status = models.IntegerField(default=0)

• PRMoureu: How is build the model you want to adapt ? you should add it if you want efficient help.

Answer 1

Excluding fields and make them read-only(admin.py). An example is given below

class SendProductAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
 exclude=("item_name ",)
 readonly_fields=('item_name', )
admin.site.register(SendProductAdmin)

Note that you can exclude as many fields as you want.

Answer 2

There is difference between the usage of admin panel and the views that you develop, the difference that you should pay attention is the admin panel is for staff users, the users that are inside company and organization and provide content to the end-users.

So who is going to work with that form? Decide on that base and what you want to do can be done both in admin panel and a developed view.

• Shaon shaonty: I have added my model. I want to edit status via admin. But others field, admin can't edit.. In this scenario can I write new view and template for admin or just customize the default admin panel?
• Serjik: You need to restrict your admin panel for some users? So they can only edit some of fields?
• Serjik: You cannot do that in ordinary way, just a tricky way, define a new model class as proxy of your current class and do restriction on it, that give access to that instead of your primary model
• Serjik: Or you can just set fields in your current admin, but in that case, anyone else cannot edit extra fields