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You've probably noticed that the default
for the list view is to show you whatever

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is in the string, or underscore underscore
string underscore underscore method of

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your mode;, but
it doesn't show you anything else.

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So for our courses list we only
see the title of the course,

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because that's what we have set
to return in the string method.

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But being able to see more fields from
our models can be really helpful for

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a lot of reasons.

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It can give us more things to sort by.

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Date, or whether the course is live for
example.

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It let's us see more
information at a glance, and

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it can even help us edit information about
our courses without having to navigate

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all the way to the detail view,
saving us some clicks.

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For now, let's focus on adding
some more fields to the list view.

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As I've said before,

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the great thing about the Django admin
is how much it gives to you for free.

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To add more fields to our list view,
we just need to tell the admin class for

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that model that we'd
like to see those fields.

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So for courses,
it might be nice to see, for

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example, the date the course was created.

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To see that,
we just add the list_display variable, and

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make it a list, and then we add the names
of the fields we want to see in order.

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So we know we wanna see the title
because we already see that, but

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we wanna add the created_at field so
we can see the date.

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So if we navigate to courses,

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now we see we can see the date
that the course was created.

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And then this table became sortable too,
so we can actually click on created at and

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we can sort In ascending order by
the date of course was created, or

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we can sort in descending or
reverse order.

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Or we can just put things
back in alphabetical order,

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it doesn't really matter.

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Now let's add the is_live field two so

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we can see at a glance which
courses are live on our site.

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So to do that we just add this
other field into our list display.

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Now we can see this red X,
which means that the course is not live,

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versus this green checkbox,
which means the course is live.

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And again, we can sort by this too.

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Pretty neat?

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Remember that in order for the is_live
field to do anything, you would need

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to add some code to your view to only
bring back courses where is_live is true.

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I'll let you do that on your own.

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But isn't adding more fields
to your list view simple?

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Before you try the next video,

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why don't you add some more
fields to the other list views?