[Solved]-Django admin: how to format readonly fields?

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7đź‘Ť

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Define a member function of your Director class that renders the readonly_field as you want.

class Director(models.Model, Specializable):
    date_of_appointment = models.DateField()
    date_ceased_to_act = models.DateField(blank=True,null=True)
    def date_of_appointment_str(self):
        if self.date_of_appointment == datetime.date(1,1,1):
            return "On incorporation"
        else:
            return "%s" % (self.date_of_appointment) # format as you wish

and then just add 'date_of_appointment_str' to your list of readonly_fields in the admin.

EDIT: I should add that this is one quick solution. A more robust solution is to subclass models.DateField into a MyCustomDateField that acts like a DateField except that when the value is date(1,1,1) it renders as “On incorporation” or when a user saves “On incorporation” it saves the value as date(1,1,1). This would ensure that you can reuse this functionality everywhere this field type shows up. However, if it only shows up in one place; this may be overkill.

You’d need something like (this is untested; you may need to additionally alter your the forms DateField and/or other things; e.g., if you use django-south you’ll have to add custom introspection rules).

class MyCustomDateField(models.DateField):
    date_111_str = 'On incorporation'
    def value_to_string(self, obj):
        val = self._get_val_from_obj(obj)
        if val is None:
            data = ''
        elif val.year == val.day == val.month == 1:
            data = date_111_str
        else:
            data = datetime_safe.new_date(val).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
        return data
    def get_prep_value(self, value):
        if value == date_111_str:
            value = datetime.date(1,1,1)
        return super(MyCustomDateField,self).get_prep_value(self, value)
👤dr jimbob

9đź‘Ť

The easiest way is to do it by defining a custom callback in the ModelAdmin. Let’s say the field is called my_datetime:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.utils.formats import localize


class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    readonly_fields = ('my_datetime_localized',)

    def my_datetime_localized(self, obj):
        return localize(obj.my_datetime)
    my_datetime_localized.short_description = 'Date / time'

Note: if settings.USE_L10N is True, this will display the datetime in the local time of the viewer, which is probably what you want. If you want to keep USE_L10N as False then you can override its behaviour like so: return localize(obj.my_datetime, use_l10n=True).

👤seddonym

2đź‘Ť

As @drjimbob (and carljm on #django) suggested, the solution is to create a member function or property on the model, e.g.:

class Director(models.Model, Specializable):
    date_of_appointment = models.DateField()
    date_ceased_to_act = models.DateField(blank=True,null=True)

    #def date_formatter and def _date_format_factory omitted

    date_of_appointment_formatted = lambda self: self.date_formatter(getattr(self, 'date_of_appointment'))
    date_ceased_to_act_formatted = _date_format_factory(None, 'date_ceased_to_act') #for some reason, I get a 'classmethod/staticmethod object is not callable' error if I decorate _date_format_factory
    date_of_appointment_formatted.short_description = u'Date of appointment'

Note the date_of_appointment_formatted.short_description – the ModelAdmin will use the short_description as the label for a readonly_field.

To get the properties working with model fields, a custom form is needed:

class DirectorInlineForm(EnhancedModelForm):
    from django.utils import formats
    date_ceased_to_act_formatted = forms.DateField(required = False, widget = admin.widgets.AdminDateWidget,
                                                   label = u'Date officer\'s appointment terminated',
                                                   input_formats = formats.get_format('DATE_INPUT_FORMATS') + (Director.on_incorporation,))

            class Meta:
                model = Director # Note that model declaration is necessary for this to work with additional fields declared


    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(DirectorInlineForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        # set initial values from model of declared fields
        if self.instance:
            self.initial['date_ceased_to_act_formatted'] = self.instance.date_ceased_to_act_formatted


    def save(self, commit = True):
        # save logic for magic formatted fields
        if self._raw_value('date_ceased_to_act_formatted') == Director.on_incorporation:
            sval = Director.on_incorporation
        else: sval = self.cleaned_data['date_ceased_to_act_formatted']

        self.instance.date_ceased_to_act_formatted = sval

        return super(forms.ModelForm, self).save(commit)

The ModelForm needs a custom field to display the property; a custom __init__ to set the initial value for the field from the property, and a custom save, to set the model property from the form field.

In my example, the save also has to be aware of the magic value, because of how DateField handles the magic value. You could push that code into a custom field instead.

👤Marcin

0đź‘Ť

I would massage field values with javascript. You can override the admin templates, and attach your javascript code into the {% block extrahead %} block ( some more info from the django book). Put your magic massage function example into .ready() (if you use jQuery).

I hope this will work for you, because I would like to do something similar, but haven’t implemented yet. 🙂

👤balazs

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