Web Development with Django Cookbook - Second Edition

Creating a category administration interface with django-mptt-tree-editor

If you want to use the common functionality of the change list, such as columns, admin actions, editable fields, or filters, in your administration interface as well as manipulate the tree structure in the same view, you need to use another third-party app called django-mptt-tree-editor. Let's see how to do that.

Getting ready

First, we need to have the django-mptt-tree-editor app installed. Perform the following steps:

1. To start, install the app in your virtual environment using the following command:

   (myproject_env)$ pip install django-mptt-tree-editor
   

2. Then, put it in INSTALLED_APPS in the settings, as follows:

   # conf/base.py or settings.py INSTALLED_APPS = ( # ... "mptt_tree_editor" ...