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Posted by csj
csj
12,678 Points

[Django] Question about the admin interface

In the Admin when you create an app and register it in the admin.py, the app's name is shown in blue bar. Like AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION. But how do you change that? Like verbose_name for models? Can you use something like verbose_name in admin.py?

Jeff Muday
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points
Jeff Muday
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points

I'm not sure if I understood what you were trying to achieve, but Django has a "proxy model" Meta you can use rather than using "verbose_name".

Take a look here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/db/models/#proxy-models

Here's an example... suppose you had a model named ContactModel (which of course is a fine name, but a little redundant). And you decided you wanted to make it look like a separate model, named Client in the admin interface because it is more "intuitive" for your Django staff. We can therefore, create a class named Client that inherits all of ContactModel -- but use the Meta class property called "proxy"

The Client model looks and acts like ContactModel and uses the exact same table in the database. You, as the programmer, can reference either Client or ContactModel for queries, but they are equivalent. So if you CRUD (CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE) on the ContactModel, you CRUD Client and vice-versa.

so something like:

client_list = models.ContactModel.objects.all() #these queries are equivalent
client_list = models.Client.objects.all()

Here's how you would use it in models.py

# models.py
from django.db import models

class ContactModel(models.Model):
    fullname = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    nickname = models.CharField(max_length=100,blank=True)
    phone = models.CharField(max_length=100,blank=True)
    email = models.EmailField()
    notes = models.TextField(blank=True)

class Client(ContactModel):
   # inherits ContactModel
    class Meta:
        proxy = True

# admin.py
from django.contrib import admin
from . import models

admin.site.register(models.Client) # Client model shows up in admin interface