Configuration

Templates

You must extend base_site.html template to customize footer links, copyright text or to add extra JS/CSS files. Example file is available on github.

Copy customized base_site.html template file to your project’s main application templates/admin/ directory and un-comment and edit the blocks you would like to extend.

Alternatively you can copy base_site.html to any of template directories, which are defined in TEMPLATE_DIRS setting (if any). By default Django looks in every registered application templates/ dir.

In the same way you can override any of Django Suit admin templates. More about customizing project’s templates, you can read in Django Admin Tutorial

Customization

You can customize Django Suit behaviour by adding SUIT_CONFIG configuration variable to your Django project settings.py file.

SUIT_CONFIG = {
‘PARAM’: VALUE, ‘PARAM2’: VALUE2 …

}

Default values are the ones specified in examples.

Full example

Configuration sample you can use as a start:

# Django Suit configuration example
SUIT_CONFIG = {
    # header
    # 'ADMIN_NAME': 'Django Suit',
    # 'HEADER_DATE_FORMAT': 'l, j. F Y',
    # 'HEADER_TIME_FORMAT': 'H:i',

    # forms
    # 'SHOW_REQUIRED_ASTERISK': True,  # Default True
    # 'CONFIRM_UNSAVED_CHANGES': True, # Default True

    # menu
    # 'SEARCH_URL': '/admin/auth/user/',
    # 'MENU_ICONS': {
    #    'sites': 'icon-leaf',
    #    'auth': 'icon-lock',
    # },
    # 'MENU_OPEN_FIRST_CHILD': True, # Default True
    # 'MENU_EXCLUDE': ('auth.group',),
    # 'MENU': (
    #     'sites',
    #     {'app': 'auth', 'icon':'icon-lock', 'models': ('user', 'group')},
    #     {'label': 'Settings', 'icon':'icon-cog', 'models': ('auth.user', 'auth.group')},
    #     {'label': 'Support', 'icon':'icon-question-sign', 'url': '/support/'},
    # ),

    # misc
    # 'LIST_PER_PAGE': 15
}

Forms

SHOW_REQUIRED_ASTERISK

Automatically adds asterisk symbol * to the end of every required field label:

SUIT_CONFIG = {
    'SHOW_REQUIRED_ASTERISK': True
}

CONFIRM_UNSAVED_CHANGES

Alert will be shown, when you’ll try to leave page, without saving changed form first:

SUIT_CONFIG = {
    'CONFIRM_UNSAVED_CHANGES': True
}

List

LIST_PER_PAGE

Set change_list view list_per_page parameter globally for whole admin. You can still override this parameter in any ModelAdmin class:

SUIT_CONFIG = {
    'LIST_PER_PAGE': 20
}