On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Daniele Procida <dani...@vurt.org> wrote:
> I am starting to customise the admin classes for my models so that I can 
> provide extra feedback to the user.
>
> For example I want to report - in the admin page - useful information about 
> how the system will interpret the current state of the object being edited.
>
> I'm doing this by using readonly_fields, that contain the output of method on 
> the ModelAdmin class, a bit like this:
>
>     class PersonAdmin(ModelAdmin):
>         readonly_fields = ['check_address',]
>
>         def check_address(self, instance):
>             return instance.get_full_address or "<span 
> class='errors'>Warning: I am unable to work out an address for this 
> person.</span>"
>
> (the actual examples are rather more complex, but this is the idea).
>
> Does a more elegant way of doing this exist, either in Django's core already, 
> or using some package that makes it easier?
>

don't know for a best way, but for me the one you're describing its
actually a good workaround that maybe I'll use :)
thanks for sharing !
-- 
Marc

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