Customizing What You See

You've probably noticed that the default for the list view is to show you whatever 0:00 is in the string, or underscore underscore string underscore underscore method of 0:04 your mode;, but it doesn't show you anything else. 0:08 So for our courses list we only see the title of the course, 0:11 because that's what we have set to return in the string method. 0:15 But being able to see more fields from our models can be really helpful for 0:19 a lot of reasons. 0:23 It can give us more things to sort by. 0:25 Date, or whether the course is live for example. 0:27 It let's us see more information at a glance, and 0:30 it can even help us edit information about our courses without having to navigate 0:34 all the way to the detail view, saving us some clicks. 0:38 For now, let's focus on adding some more fields to the list view. 0:42 As I've said before, 0:47 the great thing about the Django admin is how much it gives to you for free. 0:49 To add more fields to our list view, we just need to tell the admin class for 0:53 that model that we'd like to see those fields. 0:58 So for courses, it might be nice to see, for 1:01 example, the date the course was created. 1:04 To see that, we just add the list_display variable, and 1:07 make it a list, and then we add the names of the fields we want to see in order. 1:13 So we know we wanna see the title because we already see that, but 1:18 we wanna add the created_at field so we can see the date. 1:22 So if we navigate to courses, 1:26 now we see we can see the date that the course was created. 1:28 And then this table became sortable too, so we can actually click on created at and 1:33 we can sort In ascending order by the date of course was created, or 1:37 we can sort in descending or reverse order. 1:41 Or we can just put things back in alphabetical order, 1:44 it doesn't really matter. 1:46 Now let's add the is_live field two so 1:50 we can see at a glance which courses are live on our site. 1:52 So to do that we just add this other field into our list display. 1:56 Now we can see this red X, which means that the course is not live, 2:04 versus this green checkbox, which means the course is live. 2:09 And again, we can sort by this too. 2:13 Pretty neat? 2:17 Remember that in order for the is_live field to do anything, you would need 2:19 to add some code to your view to only bring back courses where is_live is true. 2:24 I'll let you do that on your own. 2:29 But isn't adding more fields to your list view simple? 2:32 Before you try the next video, 2:35 why don't you add some more fields to the other list views? 2:36