Django Tutorial · Admin

Include Models

Learn all about Include Models in this comprehensive tutorial.

5 min read intermediate
  • To include the Member model in the admin interface, we have to tell Django that this model should be visible in the admin interface.
  • In the list in the screenshot above, we see "Member object (1)", "Member object (2)" etc.

Include Member in the Admin Interface

To include the Member model in the admin interface, we have to tell Django that this model should be visible in the admin interface.

This is done in a file called admin.py, and is located in your app's folder, which in our case is the members folder.

Open it, and it should look like this:

Insert a couple of lines here to make the Member model visible in the admin page:

Now go back to the browser (127.0.0.1:8000/admin/) and you should get this result:

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Click Members and see the five records we inserted earlier in this tutorial:

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Change Display

In the list in the screenshot above, we see "Member object (1)", "Member object (2)" etc. which might not be the data you wanted to be displayed in the list.

It would be better to display "firstname" and "lastname" instead.

This can easily be done by changing some settings in the models.py and/or the admin.py files. You will learn more about this in the next chapter.

Module quiz

2 questions
1

Which of the following is true about Include Models?

2

What is the most common pitfall when working with Include Models?

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