Arrange models and apps order in Admin.

[Hasan Ramezani]

arrange model in django admin index page

[Hasan Ramezani]

Replying to hramezani:

arrange model in django admin index page

[Dheerendra Rathor]

Replying to hramezani:

arrange model in django admin index page

In what way you want to arrange models in Admin? Models anyway have been arranged in alphabetical order.

[Aymeric Augustin]

Use ​https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-modeladmin-reorder/

[Hasan Ramezani]

Replying to DheerendraRathor:

Replying to hramezani:

arrange model in django admin index page

In what way you want to arrange models in Admin? Models anyway have been arranged in alphabetical order.

add an option to ModelAdmin that get integer value like this:

order = 1

if order exists and has a valid integer value, it apply as model order, else previous behaviour(arrange model by name in alphabetical order) applied.

[Aymeric Augustin]

I'm afraid this API would be quite inconvenient in practice. django-modeladmin-reorder's API feels better.

[Hasan Ramezani]

Replying to aaugustin:

I'm afraid this API would be quite inconvenient in practice. django-modeladmin-reorder's API feels better.

this request does not change previous model order. model admin can be without order option. ModelAdmin without 'order' option , order same as past(alphabetically order by name). this is optional like another ModelAdmin option.

[Hasan Ramezani]

Replying to hramezani:

Replying to aaugustin:

I'm afraid this API would be quite inconvenient in practice. django-modeladmin-reorder's API feels better.

this request does not change previous model order. model admin can be without order option. ModelAdmin without 'order' option , order same as past(alphabetically order by name). this is optional like another ModelAdmin option.

also it is an simple option without need to install new package.

[Olivier Dalang]

Reopening this, as it seems there wasn't really a decision to close it ?

I think it's still relevant. Indeed the django-modeladmin-reorder's API is more powerful and flexible, but also an external dependency and configured in the settings, so not applicable to distributed apps.

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Here's a PR adding a ModelAdmin.order_in_index option: ​https://github.com/django/django/pull/12699

[Carlton Gibson]

I'm going to say No to this.

The third-party package exists. It's a bit out-of-date, but it could easily be updated. That it's out of date is indicative of a lack of demand for this feature.

Then the Admin API is already too big. Adding another option to ModalAdmin should at this stage be a last resort.

If a third party app is not desired, I'd much prefer that we document AdminSite.get_app_list() and have folks override that than opt for more API.

I hope that makes sense.

[Mariusz Felisiak]

Using AdminSite.get_app_list() was also proposed in #32482. I think it makes sense.

​PR

[Mariusz Felisiak]

Duplicate of #7497.