Take a look at https://github.com/tkaemming/django-orderable. i've used it
several times.
On Saturday, December 1, 2012 3:24:49 AM UTC-6, Andrew Brown wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I'm hopeful someone can point me in the right direction to improve the
> admin UI for my app. I need to allow for the creation and display of an
> ordered list of books. I had no problem setting this up and editing the
> lists in the admin UI, but the UX for an admin leaves much to be desired.
>
> The two biggest issues are that books can be saved to the same position as
> books already on a list, and the admin always has to specify a position on
> the list for each book (rather than simply adding the most recent book to
> the end). Ideally books could even be dragged around and visually
> reordered. This is a pretty classic ordered-list scenario, so I'm hoping
> someone has already done some work to improve the admin UI for this case.
> Is anyone aware of anything that might help?
>
> The code I'm using in my app is below- it is dead simple and pretty much
> straight from the documentation. I have created two models for this
> purpose- Book and List, which are associated by a ListMember class using a
> through relationship.
>
> class Book(models.Model):
>
> title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
>
> class List(models.Model):
>
> books = models.ManyToManyField(Book, through="ListMember")
>
> class ListMember(models.Model):
>
> list = models.ForeignKey(List)
> book = models.ForeignKey(Book)
> position = models.IntegerField()
>
>
> Then in my admin code I've created BookAdmin, ListAdmin, and
> ListMemberInline. I've also included simplified code for these classes
> below.
>
> class ListMemberInline(admin.TabularInline):
>
> model = List.books.through
>
> class ListAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
>
> inlines = ['ListMemberInline',]
> excludes = ('books',)
>
> class BookAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
>
> inlines = ['ListMemberInline',]
>
> If anyone is aware of improvements to the admin UI for this case that I
> could reuse I would really appreciate a pointer in the right direction.
> Alternatively, guidance on how to improve this myself would also be very
> helpful.
>
> Thanks!
> Andrew
>
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