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} $(document).ready(function() { // Hyperlink Django template tags and filters var base = "../../templates/builtins.html"; if (base == "#") { // Special case for builtins.html itself base = ""; } // Tags are keywords, class '.k' $("div.highlight\\-html\\+django span.k").each(function(i, elem) { var tagname = $(elem).text(); if ($.inArray(tagname, django_template_builtins.ttags) != -1) { var fragment = tagname.replace(/_/, '-'); $(elem).html("<a href='" + base + "#" + fragment + "'>" + tagname + "</a>"); } }); // Filters are functions, class '.nf' $("div.highlight\\-html\\+django span.nf").each(function(i, elem) { var filtername = $(elem).text(); if ($.inArray(filtername, django_template_builtins.tfilters) != -1) { var fragment = filtername.replace(/_/, '-'); $(elem).html("<a href='" + base + "#" + fragment + "'>" + filtername + "</a>"); } }); }); })(jQuery); </script> </head><body> <div class="document"> <div id="custom-doc" class="yui-t6"> <div id="hd"> <h1><a href="../../../index.html">Django 1.11.20 documentation</a></h1> <div id="global-nav"> <a title="Home page" href="../../../index.html">Home</a> | <a title="Table of contents" href="../../../contents.html">Table of contents</a> | <a title="Global index" href="../../../genindex.html">Index</a> | <a title="Module index" href="../../../py-modindex.html">Modules</a> </div> <div class="nav"> « <a href="actions.html" title="Admin actions">previous</a> | <a href="../../index.html" title="API Reference" accesskey="U">up</a> | <a href="javascript.html" title="JavaScript customizations in the admin">next</a> »</div> </div> <div id="bd"> <div id="yui-main"> <div class="yui-b"> <div class="yui-g" id="ref-contrib-admin-admindocs"> <div class="section" id="s-module-django.contrib.admindocs"> <span id="s-the-django-admin-documentation-generator"></span><span id="module-django.contrib.admindocs"></span><span id="the-django-admin-documentation-generator"></span><h1>The Django admin documentation generator<a class="headerlink" href="#module-django.contrib.admindocs" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p>Django’s <a class="reference internal" href="#module-django.contrib.admindocs" title="django.contrib.admindocs: Django's admin documentation generator."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">admindocs</span></code></a> app pulls documentation from the docstrings of models, views, template tags, and template filters for any app in <a class="reference internal" href="../../settings.html#std:setting-INSTALLED_APPS"><code class="xref std std-setting docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">INSTALLED_APPS</span></code></a> and makes that documentation available from the <a class="reference internal" href="index.html#module-django.contrib.admin" title="django.contrib.admin: Django's admin site."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Django</span> <span class="pre">admin</span></code></a>.</p> <div class="section" id="s-overview"> <span id="overview"></span><h2>Overview<a class="headerlink" href="#overview" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>To activate the <a class="reference internal" href="#module-django.contrib.admindocs" title="django.contrib.admindocs: Django's admin documentation generator."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">admindocs</span></code></a>, you will need to do the following:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>Add <a class="reference internal" href="#module-django.contrib.admindocs" title="django.contrib.admindocs: Django's admin documentation generator."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">django.contrib.admindocs</span></code></a> to your <a class="reference internal" href="../../settings.html#std:setting-INSTALLED_APPS"><code class="xref std std-setting docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">INSTALLED_APPS</span></code></a>.</li> <li>Add <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">url(r'^admin/doc/',</span> <span class="pre">include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls'))</span></code> to your <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlpatterns</span></code>. Make sure it’s included <em>before</em> the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">r'^admin/'</span></code> entry, so that requests to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/admin/doc/</span></code> don’t get handled by the latter entry.</li> <li>Install the docutils Python module (<a class="reference external" href="http://docutils.sf.net/">http://docutils.sf.net/</a>).</li> <li><strong>Optional:</strong> Using the admindocs bookmarklets requires <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">django.contrib.admindocs.middleware.XViewMiddleware</span></code> to be installed.</li> </ul> <p>Once those steps are complete, you can start browsing the documentation by going to your admin interface and clicking the “Documentation” link in the upper right of the page.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="s-documentation-helpers"> <span id="documentation-helpers"></span><h2>Documentation helpers<a class="headerlink" href="#documentation-helpers" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>The following special markup can be used in your docstrings to easily create hyperlinks to other components:</p> <table class="docutils"> <colgroup> <col width="31%" /> <col width="69%" /> </colgroup> <thead valign="bottom"> <tr class="row-odd"><th class="head">Django Component</th> <th class="head">reStructuredText roles</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody valign="top"> <tr class="row-even"><td>Models</td> <td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">:model:`app_label.ModelName`</span></code></td> </tr> <tr class="row-odd"><td>Views</td> <td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">:view:`app_label.view_name`</span></code></td> </tr> <tr class="row-even"><td>Template tags</td> <td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">:tag:`tagname`</span></code></td> </tr> <tr class="row-odd"><td>Template filters</td> <td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">:filter:`filtername`</span></code></td> </tr> <tr class="row-even"><td>Templates</td> <td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">:template:`path/to/template.html`</span></code></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div class="section" id="s-model-reference"> <span id="model-reference"></span><h2>Model reference<a class="headerlink" href="#model-reference" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>The <strong>models</strong> section of the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">admindocs</span></code> page describes each model in the system along with all the fields and methods available on it. Relationships to other models appear as hyperlinks. Descriptions are pulled from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">help_text</span></code> attributes on fields or from docstrings on model methods.</p> <p>A model with useful documentation might look like this:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">BlogEntry</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">models</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Model</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="sd">"""</span> <span class="sd"> Stores a single blog entry, related to :model:`blog.Blog` and</span> <span class="sd"> :model:`auth.User`.</span> <span class="sd"> """</span> <span class="n">slug</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">models</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">SlugField</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">help_text</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">"A short label, generally used in URLs."</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="n">author</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">models</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ForeignKey</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">User</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">models</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">SET_NULL</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">blank</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">null</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">)</span> <span class="n">blog</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">models</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ForeignKey</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Blog</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">models</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">CASCADE</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">...</span> <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">publish</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="sd">"""Makes the blog entry live on the site."""</span> <span class="o">...</span> </pre></div> </div> </div> <div class="section" id="s-view-reference"> <span id="view-reference"></span><h2>View reference<a class="headerlink" href="#view-reference" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>Each URL in your site has a separate entry in the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">admindocs</span></code> page, and clicking on a given URL will show you the corresponding view. Helpful things you can document in your view function docstrings include:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>A short description of what the view does.</li> <li>The <strong>context</strong>, or a list of variables available in the view’s template.</li> <li>The name of the template or templates that are used for that view.</li> </ul> <p>For example:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.shortcuts</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">render</span> <span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">myapp.models</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">MyModel</span> <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">my_view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">slug</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="sd">"""</span> <span class="sd"> Display an individual :model:`myapp.MyModel`.</span> <span class="sd"> **Context**</span> <span class="sd"> ``mymodel``</span> <span class="sd"> An instance of :model:`myapp.MyModel`.</span> <span class="sd"> **Template:**</span> <span class="sd"> :template:`myapp/my_template.html`</span> <span class="sd"> """</span> <span class="n">context</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="s1">'mymodel'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">MyModel</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">objects</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">slug</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">slug</span><span class="p">)}</span> <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">render</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'myapp/my_template.html'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">context</span><span class="p">)</span> </pre></div> </div> </div> <div class="section" id="s-template-tags-and-filters-reference"> <span id="template-tags-and-filters-reference"></span><h2>Template tags and filters reference<a class="headerlink" href="#template-tags-and-filters-reference" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>The <strong>tags</strong> and <strong>filters</strong> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">admindocs</span></code> sections describe all the tags and filters that come with Django (in fact, the <a class="reference internal" href="../../templates/builtins.html#ref-templates-builtins-tags"><span class="std std-ref">built-in tag reference</span></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="../../templates/builtins.html#ref-templates-builtins-filters"><span class="std std-ref">built-in filter reference</span></a> documentation come directly from those pages). Any tags or filters that you create or are added by a third-party app will show up in these sections as well.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="s-template-reference"> <span id="template-reference"></span><h2>Template reference<a class="headerlink" href="#template-reference" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>While <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">admindocs</span></code> does not include a place to document templates by themselves, if you use the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">:template:`path/to/template.html`</span></code> syntax in a docstring the resulting page will verify the path of that template with Django’s <a class="reference internal" href="../../templates/api.html#template-loaders"><span class="std std-ref">template loaders</span></a>. This can be a handy way to check if the specified template exists and to show where on the filesystem that template is stored.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="s-included-bookmarklets"> <span id="s-admindocs-bookmarklets"></span><span id="included-bookmarklets"></span><span id="admindocs-bookmarklets"></span><h2>Included Bookmarklets<a class="headerlink" href="#included-bookmarklets" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>One bookmarklet is available from the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">admindocs</span></code> page:</p> <dl class="docutils"> <dt>Documentation for this page</dt> <dd>Jumps you from any page to the documentation for the view that generates that page.</dd> </dl> <p>Using this bookmarklet requires that <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">XViewMiddleware</span></code> is installed and that you are logged into the <a class="reference internal" href="index.html#module-django.contrib.admin" title="django.contrib.admin: Django's admin site."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Django</span> <span class="pre">admin</span></code></a> as a <a class="reference internal" href="../auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">User</span></code></a> with <a class="reference internal" href="../auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_staff" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_staff"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">is_staff</span></code></a> set to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code>.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="yui-b" id="sidebar"> <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h3><a href="../../../contents.html">Table of Contents</a></h3> <ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#">The Django admin documentation generator</a><ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#overview">Overview</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#documentation-helpers">Documentation helpers</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#model-reference">Model reference</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#view-reference">View reference</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#template-tags-and-filters-reference">Template tags and filters reference</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#template-reference">Template reference</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#included-bookmarklets">Included Bookmarklets</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h4>Previous topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="actions.html" title="previous chapter">Admin actions</a></p> <h4>Next topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="javascript.html" title="next chapter">JavaScript customizations in the admin</a></p> <div role="note" aria-label="source link"> <h3>This Page</h3> <ul class="this-page-menu"> <li><a href="../../../_sources/ref/contrib/admin/admindocs.txt" rel="nofollow">Show Source</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="searchbox" style="display: none" role="search"> <h3>Quick search</h3> <div class="searchformwrapper"> <form class="search" action="../../../search.html" method="get"> <input type="text" name="q" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script> </div> </div> <h3>Last update:</h3> <p class="topless">Feb 11, 2019</p> </div> </div> <div id="ft"> <div class="nav"> « <a href="actions.html" title="Admin actions">previous</a> | <a href="../../index.html" title="API Reference" accesskey="U">up</a> | <a href="javascript.html" title="JavaScript customizations in the admin">next</a> »</div> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> </body> </html>