Jaanus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Django is cool :-) Im currently looking at it to possibly use it in
> several high-profile initiatives. So far so good.
>
> One thing I came across is a question of whether I can easily customize
> subsections of admin. Now the tutorials explain it nicely about
> admin_base, but Id need to be more granular - lets say I have an app
> for managing some assets, and one view of that app is downloading full
> statistics in CSV format. Now I have created a view to output the CSV,
> but Id like to link to it from the appropriate place in the admin. Lets
> say in the view where I see all the objects of the app.
>
> I took a look at admin.views.main and in change_list, I can see a lot
> of hardcore fiddling with raw_template going on to produce the output.
> Id avoid messing with that at all costs - rather, Id like to have parts
> of the admin UI more templated so that I could customize the object
> list view through the template and add my link at an appropriate
> location. Does that sound reasonable? Or is there any other easy way
> for me to accomplish this (insert custom link at an appropriate
> location in the admin), other than messing with change_list code?
>
I think you want to upgrade to trunk, where a long term effort to make
the admin very customisable has been merged.
In your case, you will be able to create a template called:
admin/<my_app>/<my_model>/change_list.html
with
{%extends "admin/change_list.html"%}
{%block search%} <a href="/admin/csv_thing/">CSV
thing</a>{{block.super}}{%endblock%}
as the content.
