Creting custom "panels" in the settings

[Eduardo Rivas]

When I register settings in my custom applicattion (in defaults.py), they get aggregated to the "Miscelaneous" panel in the Settings page. Is there a way to create a custom panel, for example, titled "My App" for the settings page?

[Stephen McDonald]

The groupings are defined by the names of the settings, so if you name your settings MYAPP_FOO and MYAPP_BAR, and there is more than one setting with that prefix, it will be grouped the way you want.

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Eduardo Rivas <jeriva...@gmail.com> wrote:

When I register settings in my custom applicattion (in defaults.py), they get aggregated to the "Miscelaneous" panel in the Settings page. Is there a way to create a custom panel, for example, titled "My App" for the settings page?

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[Eduardo Rivas]

Excellent, thank you. You should add this piece of info to the docs, along with the usage of the "label" parameter. Another question, is it possible to have a defaults.py for a project, independant of any application? Right now, only those that reside in an installed app folder get picked up.

[Stephen McDonald]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Eduardo Rivas <jeriva...@gmail.com> wrote:

Excellent, thank you. You should add this piece of info to the docs, along with the usage of the "label" parameter.

That's a great idea. Would you consider doing it and sending a pull request?

 

Another question, is it possible to have a defaults.py for a project, independant of any application? Right now, only those that reside in an installed app folder get picked up.

No that's not possible - it follows the same discovery pattern as models.py, admin.py, etc - INSTALLED_APPS is iterated through and they're loaded from there. We could certainly extend it to pick up from the project as well, but I think the consistency here with existing patterns is a good thing.

 

El sábado, 15 de septiembre de 2012 18:31:34 UTC-6, Eduardo Rivas escribió:

When I register settings in my custom applicattion (in defaults.py), they get aggregated to the "Miscelaneous" panel in the Settings page. Is there a way to create a custom panel, for example, titled "My App" for the settings page?