compact_inline.rst

Compact Inline

By default Django admin interface provides two types of inlines to edit models on the same page as a related model – StackedInline and TabularInline. StackedInline is mostly used when there are not so many objects. If number of models is rather big, TabularInline can help you. Unfortunately when related model has a lot of fields it may be not convenient to interact with them. To solve this problem JET has a CompactInline class built-in.

Usage

CompactInline works exactly like Django built-in inlines, you need just to inherit jet.admin.CompactInline inline class. That's all.

from django.contrib import admin
from people.models import County, State, City
from jet.admin import CompactInline


class StateCountiesInline(admin.TabularInline):
    model = County
    extra = 1
    show_change_link = True


class StateCitiesInline(CompactInline):
    model = City
    extra = 1
    show_change_link = True


class StateAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    inlines = (StateCountiesInline, StateCitiesInline)