How to add report section to the Django admin?

Question

I want to implement a report section in Django admin. This would mean adding a custom section in the admin homepage where instead of a list of models I would see a list of repor

Answer 1

Additionally, there is this nice app:

django-admin-reports

"admin_reports" is a Django application to easily create data aggregation reports to display inside Django admin.

The Django admin is very much centered on models and it provide a quick and simple way to create a GUI for the CRUD interface, but often there's the need to display data in an aggregate form, here's where admin_reports comes handy.

The idea is to have a class similar to ModelAdmin (from django.contrib.admin) that allow to display derived data concentrating on implementing the aggregation procedure.

Answer 2

So you are attempting to add in new pages into the django admin.

This section explains to you exactly how you can do so - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#adding-views-to-admin-sites

The basic idea is to add in new urls that you want in your urls.py as if you are adding urls for your "front end" pages. The key difference is that these new urls you are adding should start with ^admin/ and would look something like ^admin/my_special_link_in_admin and this url will point to your own custom view function at a location you so prefer.

E.g.

(r'^admin/my_special_link_in_admin/$', 'my_custom_admin_app.views.special_admin_page'),

So this is the way for complete customization. There's a very good tutorial which I refer to here - http://brandonkonkle.com/blog/2010/oct/4/django-admin-customization-examples/

In addition, if you don't want to do too much work, consider using Django Admin Plus - https://github.com/jsocol/django-adminplus

Or a django-admin-views - https://github.com/frankwiles/django-admin-views