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Models Admins

CustomBaseModelAdmin, CustomBaseModelAdminWithSoftDelete

Inherits from admin.ModelAdmin. When model is created via rake new:model... or via management command, admin file is generated automatically.

This model admin overrides models.ImageField form field and displays fancy thumbnail for images. By default, uses cached paginator and sets show_full_result_count to False for performance improvements.

Model Admin Properties

show_goback_button is set to True by default. You can disable via;

class ExampleAdmin(CustomBaseModelAdminWithSoftDelete):
    # ...
    show_goback_button = False
    # ...

• show_full_result_count is set to False by default.
• hide_deleted_at is set to True by default. This means, you will not see that field while editing the instance.

Example for Post model admin (auto generated).

import logging

from django.contrib import admin

from console import console
from vb_baseapp.admin import (
    CustomBaseModelAdminWithSoftDelete,
)

from ..models import Post

__all__ = ['PostAdmin']

logger = logging.getLogger('app')
console = console(source=__name__)


@admin.register(Post)
class PostAdmin(CustomBaseModelAdminWithSoftDelete):
    # hide_deleted_at = False

By default, deleted_at excluded from admin form like created_at and updated_at fields. You can also override this via hide_deleted_at attribute. Comment/Uncomment lines according to your needs! This works only in CustomBaseModelAdminWithSoftDelete.

CustomBaseModelAdminWithSoftDelete also comes with special admin action. You can recover/make active (undelete) multiple objects like deleting feature of Django’s default.

Extra Features

When you’re dealing with soft-deleted objects, you’ll see HARD DELETE and RECOVER buttons in the change form. Hard delete really wipes the items from database. Recover, recovers/undeletes object and related elements.

You’ll also have GO BACK button too :)