On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Dave Benjamin <dave.benja...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > On Apr 11, 9:29 am, Dave Benjamin <dave.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is it possible to exclude columns from the popup list view? > > I may have answered my own question. It looks like the popup is > generated from the changelist_view method of ModelAdmin, and this > method gets the request as a parameter. I was able to modify the > list_display attribute (which seems to be used as an instance > attribute even though it normally starts out as a class attribute) > before the change list gets generated. However, it seems like the > ModelAdmin instance is saved and reused, so I have to code for both > the popup and non-popup states, and I wonder if mutating the instance > is a thread-safe operation. Anyway, here's what I came up with: > > class CustomUserAdmin(UserAdmin): > # ... > > def changelist_view(self, request, *args, **kwargs): > is_popup = admin.views.main.IS_POPUP_VAR in request.GET > if is_popup: > self.list_display = [ > u'username', > u'last_name', > u'first_name', > u'is_active', > u'last_login', > ] > self.list_display_links = [u'username'] > else: > self.list_display = [ > u'username', > u'last_name', > u'first_name', > u'is_active', > u'is_staff', > u'date_joined', > u'last_login', > ] > self.list_display_links = [u'username'] > return super(CustomUserAdmin, self).changelist_view(request, > *args, **kwargs) > > admin.site.unregister(User) > admin.site.register(User, CustomUserAdmin) > > > > This code isn't threadsafe. If you use your application in a multithreaded application they will "cross the streams" so to speak and you will see things rendred with the wrong list display. Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." --Voltaire "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
