Question

I have an application in Django with a routine which would be available only to the admin. What I want to do is add a button to perform the routine in this application’s section of the admin app.

Am I supposed to make a template for it, and if that’s the case, how do I add a html template for an app in the admin. Or maybe there’s a command to simply add a button?

Answer 1

Messing with the admin forms can be complicated but i’ve commonly found that adding links, buttons, or extra info is easy and helpful. (Like a list of links to related objects witout making an inline, esp for things that are more viewed than edited).

From Django docs

Because of the modular design of the admin templates, it is usually
neither necessary nor advisable to
replace an entire template. It is
almost always better to override only
the section of the template which you
need to change.

This will add a list over the top of the form.

Place in templates/admin/[your_app]/[template_to_override]:

{% extends "admin/change_form.html" %}

{% block form_top %}

{% for item in original.items %}
  {{ item }}
{% endfor %}

{% endblock %}