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This video will take you through a short recap of what you’ve learned in this course.
You made it!
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You now know everything there is to know
about the Django admin, just kidding.
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As you can tell, there's almost no
end to the ways you can customize and
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improve the functionality
available to you in the admin.
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Forgive me for being a little trite,
but the sky truly is the limit.
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From displaying fields in
a tabular format, to making fields
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editable in the list view, you've
accomplished so much in this course.
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Let's take a quick look back though
the admin to review what you've learned.
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We've done the bulk of
our work in admin.py, but
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let's scroll through this for a moment.
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We didn't actually add that much code,
did we?
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That's the beautiful thing
about the Django admin.
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You can make some serious improvements
without writing a lot of extra code.
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So for example, in the Courses section,
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we added those awesome admin actions that
let us change the status of the courses.
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We also disabled the delete function so
that no one can delete courses.
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And we have the search bar at the top
to make it easier to find what we're
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looking for.
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We also added a bunch of information
to this list of courses.
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So for example, now we can see
the time that a course was created.
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We can see how much time
a course takes to complete.
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And we can see whether
a particular course is live.
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We can even change the status of courses
from right here from the list view.
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Plus, over on the right-hand side,
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we can filter down to all
the courses that are live, or
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all the courses that are on Python,
or all the courses created in 2015.
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And on the detail page we have that
really awesome markdown preview box.
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Super helpful for
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seeing if our markdown is going to render
nicely or if we've made a mistake.
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And if we back up a little bit,
on the questions page
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we've made all our answers
appear in this tabular format.
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All the fields aren't stacked
on top of each other now,
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which makes it much easier to input
the information that we want to.
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That was a ton of work just
on a couple of models.
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So if we hop over to
the multiple choice questions.
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Right off, we can see that we can quickly
change the quiz that a question goes with,
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and the order that it appears
in right from the list view.
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In the text model,
on the detail screen, we made
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the courses that the text goes with appear
as a vertical list of radio buttons.
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We also added this content field set so
that we can expand it and
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collapse whenever we want it or
don't want it.
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And hey, right off the bat,
we changed Django Administration to say
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Learning Site Administration, which makes
so much more sense for our project.
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And then, back over on the quiz model,
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we can change the course
that a quiz goes with.
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And change the number of
total questions that it has
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right there from the list view.
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We also added that neat feature
where we can see how many
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questions someone has to get
right in order to pass the quiz.
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So if we change this one to 10,
and then save it,
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we can see they only need to get 7
answers right in order to get a 70.
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Plus, we can filter the quizzes by course
and search for the quizzes that we need.
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See what great work you did?
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But that's not all you can do.
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You can totally write your own templates,
views and even URLs for the admin.
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It's probably not necessary for most
projects, but that capability is there.
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You can also override basically any
template in the Django admin system.
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And you've had lots of
practice with that now.
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We overrode three
templates in this course.
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You can pass in your own CSS and
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change the way the whole
admin looks if you want to.
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There are even some Django packages
out there you can install just for
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the admin that will add their
own features and optimizations.
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There is so much more out there for
you to explore in the Django admin.
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I hope you take some time to play
around with your new skills.
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Thank you so much for learning about
the Django admin with me, you did great!
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