Django custom view into admin page

Question

I have created a custom view.

How can I insert the view into the admin?

For a normal admin class, we can just simply register it to the admin site:

Answer 1

The pattern gets a view, not the result of calling the view, i.e.:

list_urls = patterns('', r'^list/$', self.list_view())

should be

list_urls = patterns('', r'^list/$', self.list_view)

Also, "list_view" (at this stage) is a view like any other. So it will need to return an HttpResponse object.

def list_view(self, request):
    return question_list(request)

You're not showing the code for question_list() but I have the suspicion it is not returning an HttpResponse.

P.S.: If you provided the traceback of the "'function' object is not iterable" exception (you're getting this when visiting "list/" ?) there'd be less guesswork.

Answer 2

Here's an example of everything needed to add (as of Django 1.6) for a custom page that will be linked to from a button next to the "History" button in the top right of an object's detail page:

https://gist.github.com/mattlong/4b64212e096766e058b7

Answer 3

You should override get_urls in you ModelAdmin subclass.

Answer 4

Based on the information you provided you should check this part of Django's documentation:

Adding views to admin sites (note: the link is valid for version 1.5 since version 1.3 is not supported anymore - the solution is still valid).

Then you could check this blog post and this question for some further inspiration and details.

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Based on your example I really don't get why you just don't use a regular ModelAdmin with some filtering options:

class QuestionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_filter = ('topic',)