How to overwrite the hyperlink of objects in change list template of django admin? - Django users

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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:04:01 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Leon <LeonChen8...@gmail.com>
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I've tried that method and make my own object list in the customized
change_list.html.
That REALLY duplicate a lot of works. Is it possible to add a hook
function (middleware?) just
before the change_list template being rendered? In that way, I might
be able to modify the
data before it is passed to template.

I had expected there is a magic function in model class to change it. :
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On Apr 14, 9:23 am, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 06:20 -0700, Leon wrote:
> > Hi,
> >       I use django admin to manage a table. There is a hyperlink for
> > each object in the change_list template, which will bring me to the
> > change_form template. I want to change that hyperlink and redirect it
> > to another url to handle. I didn't want to customize the current
> > change_form for this model because it is still used somewhere else.
> >       Anybody knows how to do it?
>
> It's possible, but fairly fiddly. You can create a custom
> change_list.html template for just that application + model name
> combination (since the admin interface tries to load a template under
> admin/<app_name>/<model_name>/change_list.html as one of the options for
> that page). Then you need to write a template that displays what you
> would like, which possibly means duplicating a lot of the logic of the
> original page and the template tags that construct it. With a bit of
> tracing through the code (admin/templates/admin/change_list.html,
> admin/tempates/admin/change_list_result.html,
> admin/templatetags/admin_list.py, admin/views/main.py) it should be
> quite possible to achieve what you want. Take your time and you'll get
> there (or use newforms-admin or wait for newforms-admin to be merged
> into trunk, both of which will be easier).
>
> Note that this sort of customisation does require you to read some
> Python code and templates and do a bit of design work. There isn't a
> step-by-step guide, so if you aren't up to being able to read the code a
> bit, this probably isn't the right sort of customisation to be trying to
> make.
>
> Regards,
> Malcolm
>
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