http://www.djangobook.com/en/1.0/chapter17/

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Lars Stavholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Low Kian Seong wrote:
>> You are supposed to put the admin template you want to override in
>> your own template directory definition in settings.py
>>
>> So, if you defined it as /home/stava/<project
>> name>/template/admin/change_list.html
>
> Huh?
> /L
>
>> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Lars Stavholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I'd like to override part of an admin change_list template.
>>>
>>> Reading the documentation, my understanding is that I can place
>>> a template in a certain place in the templates directory hierarchy,
>>> and django will look for it and use it, i.e.:
>>>
>>> templates/admin/build/job/change_list.html
>>>
>>> ...where "build" is my application and "job" is my model class.
>>>
>>> The change_list.html file only contains the part I want to override,
>>> i.e. the extrahead block. It contains:
>>>
>>> {% extends "admin/change_list.html" %}
>>> {% block extrahead %}
>>>   <META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT=10>
>>> {% endblock %}
>>>
>>> However, this does not work for me, so I'm expecting it to be some
>>> mistake on my part, I just can't figure out what the mistake is.
>>>
>>> Now, if I put the file in ./templates/admin/build/change_list.html
>>> it still wont work. On the other hand, this would be overriding all
>>> "build" application change lists, which is not what I was looking for.
>>>
>>> Only way I've found is to copy the change_list.html from the django
>>> installation in contrib/admin/templates/admin, and then modify it to
>>> my needs, using "if" statements to figure out which application model
>>> class is being rendered, and the put the change_list.html in my app's
>>> templates/admin directory, which doesn't feel right.
>>>
>>> Any input appreciated
>>> /Lars Stavholm
>>>
>>>
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