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• In Django you are able to set and design your own administration form.
• The key here is to override the general template for administration form.

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• In the example codes above the fields = ["pub_date", "question_text"] is meant to adjust the position of which input appeared first.
• The sample codes.

class QuestionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fields = ["pub_date", "question_text"]

admin.site.register(Question, QuestionAdmin)

• The last line is what makes the layout template change. So, do not forget to make sure to put QuestionAdmin as the second parameter.
• I am not sure if QuestionAdmin() should go with ModelNameAdmin() pattern.
• For safety I will just go follow with ModelNameAdmin() convention.

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• The second parameter in admin.site.register(Question, QuestionAdmin), the QuestionAdmin is named as model admin class in Django term.
• It is a function that is necessary to alter the layout of the model - administration page.

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• Do not mistaken fields for field.
• I have a lot occasion when the web application is not as what I want because of missing of suffix "s".

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• I had a mistake when I forgot to put QuestionAdmin as second parameter in admin.site.register(Question, QuestionAdmin), while I expecting a change.

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• The codes above is an example on how to add sub - title or sub - field in Django administration page.

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• Here is the example rendered view with "Date information" as the sub - title.

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• The simplest way to add another model is by using admin.site.register(ModelNameHere).

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• However, it is not convenient.
• It will be more convenient if you can add questions directly when we add or edit a document.

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• What need to be done, firstly is to remove admin.site.register(Choice) and edit back the QuestionAdmin().

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• These is the codes used to tell Django to show 3 slots of Choice whenever Question is added or edited.

class ChoiceInline(admin.StackedInline):
    model = Choice
    extra = 3


class QuestionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fieldsets = [
        (None,               {'fields': ['question_text']}),
        ('Date information', {'fields': ['pub_date'], 'classes': ['collapse']}),
    ]
    inlines = [ChoiceInline]

admin.site.register(Question, QuestionAdmin)

• Unfortunately there is no way to order the inlines with the fieldsets aside from making custom administration template.

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• I had the problem with "s" suffix again.
• I wrote it as inline when it is supposed to be inlines.

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• The word extra is used to add additional slots every time a user added or edited a model.

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• Using admin.TabularInline instead of admin.StackedInline to make every data displayed horizontally than vertically. This is good if each columns displayed has a binary informations.

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• Add was_published_recently in the list_display as like this, list_display = ("question_text", "pub_date", "was_published_recently").

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• Example of the newly added column the "WAS PUBLISHED RECENTLY" column.

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• We can sort the data on each column but not on "WAS PUBLISHED RECENTLY". Because "WAS PUBLISHED RECENTLY" is an arbitrary data type.
• With this codes we can add results of a function into the administration page.

was_published_recently.admin_order_field = "pub_date"
was_published_recently.boolean = True
was_published_recently.short_description = "Published recently?"

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• Here is how to add additional search box for every document in the table.
• Additionally, you can add more than 1 column (aside from the "question_text" that has already put there) into the list.

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• There are a lot of stuffs that still can be added to further customize the administration page.
• This is the link to the tutorial, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/intro/tutorial07/.
• This is the screenshot of the tutorial.

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