[FIXED] Order items with the django-admin interface

Issue

Lets say I have a django model looking like this:

class question(models.Model):
  order = models.IntegerField('Position')
  question = models.CharField(max_length= 400)
  answer = models.TextField()
  published = models.BooleanField()

  def __unicode__(self):
    return self.question

In my view I show all of the questions ordered ascending by the order field.

My question is: Is there an easy way to edit the order field in the django admin interface? Right now, I have to go to edit the Question, then look up what number to put in the order field and maybe even reorder all the other items. What i really want would be some "up and down"-arrows on the admin page where all the questions are listed.

Is that possible?

Solution

Sure, here is an example of admin.py file with up and down links to change items order: https://github.com/alexvasi/django-simplemenu/blob/master/simplemenu/admin.py

Basically, you just need to override get_urls method to add your custom views (move_up and move_down in this example).

More famous example would be django-treemenus, but there is some extra code to support older versions of django.

Answered By - alex vasi