Add "Recent Actions" panel to app_index template

[Julia]

This was a feature request and relates to the changeset in ​#1390. The goal is to produce specified results for the Recent Actions panel (sidebar) to only display logged actions for that particular model. For example, at Home > Auth would only display logged actions for the apps pertaining to that model (e.g. User, Groups).

[Adrian Holovaty]

This would be a nice addition.

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Milestone post-1.0 deleted

[Dario Ocles]

I made a patch to include "recent actions" on app_index. Added 'for_current_app' option on get_admin_log. If it is used on any other place than app_index it just won't filter anything.

[Jacob]

Ick, I really don't like the way for_current_app works. Template tags that require specific things from the context aren't a good practice. How about {% get_admin_log 10 as admin_log for_user 23 for_app "appname" %} ? So in the case of admin templates, it'd be {% get_admin_log ... for_app app_list.0.name %}.

[Dario Ocles]

I improved the patch as jacob suggested. I removed the 'for_current_app' option and I added the 'for_app' option that recives the app name.

I'm not sure what kind of test I can add to this patch, can someone give me some advise about this? I don't have much experience, sorry.

I removed the check of 'patch needs improvement' but I leave the 'needs tests' unless someone says that it doesn't need any tests.

[Preston Timmons]

Added tests to patch

[Preston Timmons]

I updated the patch to add test cases. From what I could tell there weren't any existing tests for the get_admin_log template tag.

[Collin Anderson]

If it helps, I personally register the LogEntry model in the admin:

class LogEntryAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ['action_time', 'obj', 'content_type', 'user', 'action', 'change_message']
    list_filter = ['content_type']
    readonly_fields = ['user', 'content_type', 'object_id', 'object_repr', 'action_flag', 'change_message']

    def obj(self, obj):
            return '<a href="%s">%s</a>' % (obj.get_edited_object().get_absolute_url(), conditional_escape(obj.object_repr))
    obj.allow_tags = True
    obj.admin_sort_field = 'object_repr'

    def action(self, obj):
        return (u'%s' % obj).split()[0]
    obj.admin_sort_field = 'action_flag'