Django was definitely designed to be extended. But it is sometimes hard to
find the write ways to extend what you specifically want. Don't give up on
extending admin. Hopefully someone will point you in the write direction.
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:06 AM, snfctech <tschm...@sacfoodcoop.com> wrote:
> (Disclamor: I am new to Python/Django. Used to PHP/MVC ways of doing
> things.)
>
> I want to customize the admin view, because it already does >50% of
> what I want for my application.
>
> So, do I...
>
> 1. Alter the HTML sent to the template?
>
> One of the first things I want to do is add an AJAX onclick record
> detail display below the built-in change_list view. So, I started by
> thinking I need to add an onclick attribute or at least a <tr> id to
> the HTML that is rendered for the result_list block in the change_list
> template. This got me sniffing around django.contrib.admin.views.main
> and other files and I soon felt like I was barking up the wrong tree.
>
> 2. Traverse the DOM on domready?
>
> Then SmileyChris on #django suggested I add JS to traverse the DOM in
> order to add my onclick attribute. So I thought, okay, now I need to
> learn the right way to write javascript for Django. So I entered the
> keyword "javascript" in the Django documentation search field, and the
> results were not very satisfying. Then I checked djangobook.com and
> found a tiny section called "Custom JavaScript" in chapter 17. I
> thought, "great, I'll just window.addEvent('domready', function()
> { var changelist = document.getElementById('changelist')}); and go
> from there." But, no dice. No 'changelist' node on domready. I
> don't get it.
>
> So I spent the rest of the day googling and banging my head trying to
> figure out how Django deals with Javascript. The best I found were
> some links to random blogs like:
>
> http://lethain.com/entry/2008/sep/21/intro-to-unintrusive-javascript-with-django/
> .
> But I kept searching because I thought learning how to work with
> javascript/AJAX in Django must certainly be in the core documentation
> somewhere, not in a random blog. Am I missing something?
>
> So, is the right way to extend and admin view with AJAX one of the
> above methods I mentioned?
>
> Is the authoritative Django documentation for how to work with
> javascript/AJAX a blog like
> http://lethain.com/entry/2008/sep/21/intro-to-unintrusive-javascript-with-django/
> ?
>
> Am I already going down the wrong path because, even though the admin
> code does >50% of what I want my app to do, I should not be
> customizing the admin code to build my app.
>
> Thanks in advance for any tips.
>
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