How to show all fields of model in admin page?
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In this picture, only the title shows up on here, I used:
def __unicode__(self):
return self.title;
here is the each individual objects
How do I show all these fields?
How do I show all the fields in each Model page?
Django Models Solutions
Solution 1 - Django Models
If you want to include all fields without typing all fieldnames, you can use
list_display = BookAdmin._meta.get_all_field_names()
The drawback is, the fields are in sorted order.
Edit:
This method has been deprecated in Django 1.10 See Migrating from old API for reference. Following should work instead for Django >= 1.9
for most cases -
list_display = [field.name for field in Book._meta.get_fields()]
Solution 2 - Django Models
By default, the admin layout only shows what is returned from the object's unicode function. To display something else you need to create a custom admin form in app_dir/admin.py
.
You need to add an admin form, and setting the list_display
field.
In your specific example (admin.py):
class BookAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
list_display = ('title', 'author', 'price')
admin.site.register(Book, BookAdmin)
Solution 3 - Django Models
If you want to include all but the ManyToManyField field names, and have them in the same order as in the models.py file, you can use:
list_display = [field.name for field in Book._meta.fields if field.name != "id"]
As you can see, I also excluded the id.
If you find yourself doing this a lot, you could create a subclass of ModelAdmin:
class CustomModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
def __init__(self, model, admin_site):
self.list_display = [field.name for field in model._meta.fields if field.name != "id"]
super(CustomModelAdmin, self).__init__(model, admin_site)
and then just inherit from that:
class BookAdmin(CustomModelAdmin):
pass
or you can do it as a mixin:
class CustomModelAdminMixin(object):
def __init__(self, model, admin_site):
self.list_display = [field.name for field in model._meta.fields if field.name != "id"]
super(CustomModelAdminMixin, self).__init__(model, admin_site)
class TradeAdmin(CustomModelAdminMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
pass
The mixin is useful if you want to inherit from something other than admin.ModelAdmin.
Solution 4 - Django Models
I found OBu's answer here to be very useful for me. He mentions:
> The drawback is, the fields are in sorted order.
A small adjustment to his method solves this problem as well:
list_display = [f.name for f in Book._meta.fields]
Worked for me.
Solution 5 - Django Models
Many of the answers are broken by Django 1.10. For version 1.10 or above, this should be
list_display = [f.name for f in Book._meta.get_fields()]
Solution 6 - Django Models
The problem with most of these answers is that they will break if your model contains ManyToManyField
or ForeignKey
fields.
For the truly lazy, you can do this in your admin.py
:
from django.contrib import admin
from my_app.models import Model1, Model2, Model3
@admin.register(Model1, Model2, Model3)
class UniversalAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
def get_list_display(self, request):
return [field.name for field in self.model._meta.concrete_fields]
Solution 7 - Django Models
Here is my approach, will work with any model class:
MySpecialAdmin = lambda model: type('SubClass'+model.__name__, (admin.ModelAdmin,), {
'list_display': [x.name for x in model._meta.fields],
'list_select_related': [x.name for x in model._meta.fields if isinstance(x, (ManyToOneRel, ForeignKey, OneToOneField,))]
})
This will do two things:
- Add all fields to model admin
- Makes sure that there is only a single database call for each related object (instead of one per instance)
Then to register you model:
admin.site.register(MyModel, MySpecialAdmin(MyModel))
Note: if you are using a different default model admin, replace 'admin.ModelAdmin' with your admin base class
Solution 8 - Django Models
Show all fields:
list_display = [field.attname for field in BookModel._meta.fields]
Solution 9 - Django Models
Every solution found here raises an error like this
The value of 'list_display[n]' must not be a ManyToManyField.
If the model contains a Many to Many
field.
A possible solution that worked for me is:
list_display = [field.name for field in MyModel._meta.get_fields() if not x.many_to_many]
Solution 10 - Django Models
I like this answer and thought I'd post the complete admin.py code (in this case, I wanted all the User model fields to appear in admin)
from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.db.models import ManyToOneRel, ForeignKey, OneToOneField
MySpecialAdmin = lambda model: type('SubClass'+model.__name__, (admin.ModelAdmin,), {
'list_display': [x.name for x in model._meta.fields],
'list_select_related': [x.name for x in model._meta.fields if isinstance(x, (ManyToOneRel, ForeignKey, OneToOneField,))]
})
admin.site.unregister(User)
admin.site.register(User, MySpecialAdmin(User))
Solution 11 - Django Models
list_display = [field.name for field in Book._meta.get_fields()]
This should work even with python 3.9
happy coding
Solution 12 - Django Models
I'm using Django 3.1.4
and here is my solution.
I have a model Qualification
model.py
from django.db import models
TRUE_FALSE_CHOICES = (
(1, 'Yes'),
(0, 'No')
)
class Qualification(models.Model):
qual_key = models.CharField(unique=True, max_length=20)
qual_desc = models.CharField(max_length=255)
is_active = models.IntegerField(choices=TRUE_FALSE_CHOICES)
created_at = models.DateTimeField()
created_by = models.CharField(max_length=255)
updated_at = models.DateTimeField()
updated_by = models.CharField(max_length=255)
class Meta:
managed = False
db_table = 'qualification'
admin.py
from django.contrib import admin
from models import Qualification
@admin.register(Qualification)
class QualificationAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
list_display = [field.name for field in Qualification._meta.fields if field.name not in ('id', 'qual_key', 'qual_desc')]
list_display.insert(0, '__str__')
here i am showing all fields in list_display excluding 'id', 'qual_key', 'qual_desc' and inserting '__str__'
at the beginning.
This answer is helpful when you have large number of modal fields, though i suggest write all fields one by one for better functionality.