The answer is definitely yes. However, some perserverance is required to figure it out. I recently found Jannis Leidel's web page (I believe he is one of the django developers, but not sure about that) and it provides some really excellent examples of how to create new widgets which override the default behavior of the admin pages.
I've gone through the following two examples that he posted: http://jannisleidel.com/2008/11/autocomplete-widget-for-django-tagging-form-fields/ http://jannisleidel.com/2008/11/wysiwym-editor-widget-django-admin-interface/ Absolutely great stuff - Jannis, if you are reading this, thank you! Howevre, if you are a newbie, this may not yet make much sense. I basically implemented my own app that displays something sort of similar to the changelist view in the admin. Now that I know what I'm doing, I'm realizing that if I can just reconfigure the admin, I'll get a lot of stuff for free. So I'm working toward being able to do that, but in the process I have really had to dive in and become familiar with the django source code. Margie On May 11, 9:16 am, Phil Mocek <pmocek-list-django-us...@mocek.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:09:39AM -0700, Wayne Molina wrote: > > What I want to know is if it's possible to "extend" the admin > > site by adding my own views and templates > > This is something in which lots of people are likely to be > interested. So that others can benefit from your research, please > summarize it. What did you find when you searched the Web for > "extend django admin interface" [1]? What relevant information have > you found to be lacking in chapter 17 ("Extending Django's Admin > Interface") of The Django Book [2]? > > If searching the Web and perusing the table of content for The > Django Book didn't occur to you as likely routes to finding the > information you seek, these tips [3] are likely to be of use to you. > > References: > > [1]: <http://lmgtfy.com/?q=extend+django+admin+interface> > [2]: <http://www.djangobook.com/en/1.0/chapter17/> > [3]: <http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#before> > > -- > Phil Mocek --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
