I have a DateTimeField field in my model. I wanted to display it as a checkbox widget in the Django admin site. To do this, I created a custom form widget. However, I do not know how to use my custom widget for only this one field.
The Django documentation explains how to use a custom widget for all fields of a certain type:
class StopAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
formfield_overrides = {
models.DateTimeField: {'widget': ApproveStopWidget }
}
This is not granular enough though. I want to change it for only one field.
Create a custom ModelForm for your ModelAdmin and add 'widgets' to its Meta class, like so:
class StopAdminForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Stop
widgets = {
'approve_ts': ApproveStopWidget(),
}
fields = '__all__'
class StopAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
form = StopAdminForm
Done!
Documentation for this is sort of non-intuitively placed in the ModelForm docs, without any mention to it given in the admin docs. See: Creating forms from models
After digging into the admin, model field and form field code, I believe the only way to carry out what I want is by creating a custom model field:
models.py
from django.db import models
from widgets import ApproveStopWidget
class ApproveStopModelField(models.DateTimeField):
pass
class Stop(models.model):
# Other fields
approve_ts = ApproveStopModelField('Approve place', null=True, blank=True)
admin.py
from widgets import ApproveStopWidget
from models import ApproveStopModelField
class StopAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
formfield_overrides = {
ApproveStopModelField: {'widget': ApproveStopWidget }
}
It gets the job done.
For the time being, I'll leave the question unanswered because I have the habit of missing the obvious. Perhaps some Django smartypants has a better solution.
Override formfield_for_dbfield like thus:
class VehicleAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
search_fields = ["name", "colour"]
def formfield_for_dbfield(self, db_field, **kwargs):
if db_field.name == 'colour':
kwargs['widget'] = ColourChooserWidget
return super(VehicleAdmin,self).formfield_for_dbfield(db_field,**kwargs)
(credit to http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/03/28/overriding-a-single-field-in-the-django-admin-using-newforms-admin/ )
Django's ModelAdmin.get_changelist_form(self, request, **kwargs) will do the trick for the case of list_editable
class StopAdminForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Stop
widgets = {
'approve_ts': ApproveStopWidget(),
}
class StopAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
form = StopAdminForm
#just return the ModelForm class StopAdminForm
def get_changelist_form(self, request, **kwargs):
return StopAdminForm
Refer to Django Official documentation on this topic
I hope this will help