How do I customize the admin interface.

17. How do I customize what is shown and can be edited in the admin interface?

There's quite a lot you can easily customize for the admin interface. Note that some of the changes need you to restart the database. (Ctrl-c to stop, python manage.py runserver to restart)

To customize the admin interface for a model, you need to edit the admin.py file in the app with the model for which you want the modification to be made. This is what it might look like:

from django.contrib import admin
from sky1.contract.models import ContractText, Contract

class modelNameAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
list_display = ('owner', 'consent', 'signDate')
list_filter = ('signDate',)
date_hierarchy = 'signDate'
ordering = ('-signDate',)
search_fields = ('firstname', 'lastname', 'signDate')

admin.site.register(ContractText)
admin.site.register(Contract, ContractAdmin)

You create a new class in the admin.py, called something like 'modelNameAdmin', then give it the parameter admin.ModelAdmin (that is standard, you don't change it)

The you have different fields you can modify! I'm not going to go through them now, but maybe I'll add something interesting later...