Django admin base.html template

[Mike Dewhirst]

I would like to suggest a small change to
contrib/admin/templates/admin/base.html ...

33 {% block userlinks %}
34 {% if site_url %}
35 <a href="{{ site_url }}">{% trans 'View site' %}</a> /
36 {% endif %}
37 {% if user.is_active and user.is_staff %}
38 {% url 'django-admindocs-docroot' as docsroot %}
39 {% if docsroot %}
40 <a href="{{ docsroot }}">{% trans
'Documentation' %}</a> /
41 {% endif %}
42 {% endif %}
43 {% if user.has_usable_password %}
44 <a href="{% url 'admin:password_change' %}">{% trans
'Change password' %}</a> /
45 {% endif %}
46 <a href="{% url 'admin:logout' %}">{% trans 'Log out'
%}</a>
47 {% endblock %}

... to include a new block around the docsrootfrom line 37 (above) to 42
inclusive. The business case (for me) is that ordinary user.is_staff
users have no interest in the innards of the design, models, tags etc.
Superusers are interested but not the others.

Hence, if that bit of the template were surrounded by a new block - say
{% docs %} - then I could over-ride just that bit and send ordinary
users to the user-documentation instead.

Thoughts?

Mike

[Mike Dewhirst]

For example - see below

On 28/04/2017 3:38 PM, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
> I would like to suggest a small change to
> contrib/admin/templates/admin/base.html ...
>
> 33 {% block userlinks %}
> 34 {% if site_url %}
> 35 <a href="{{ site_url }}">{% trans 'View site'
> %}</a> /
> 36 {% endif %}

{% block docs %}

> 37 {% if user.is_active and user.is_staff %}
> 38 {% url 'django-admindocs-docroot' as docsroot %}
> 39 {% if docsroot %}
> 40 <a href="{{ docsroot }}">{% trans
> 'Documentation' %}</a> /
> 41 {% endif %}
> 42 {% endif %}

{% endblock %}

> 43 {% if user.has_usable_password %}
> 44 <a href="{% url 'admin:password_change' %}">{% trans
> 'Change password' %}</a> /
> 45 {% endif %}
> 46 <a href="{% url 'admin:logout' %}">{% trans 'Log
> out' %}</a>
> 47 {% endblock %}

Or in full from line 33 in contrib/admin/templates/admin/base.html

{% block userlinks %}
{% if site_url %}

<a href="{{ site_url }}">{% trans 'View site' %}</a> /

{% endif %}
{% block docs %}

{% if user.is_active and user.is_staff %}

{% url 'django-admindocs-docroot' as docsroot %}

{% if docsroot %}

<a href="{{ docsroot }}">{% trans
'Documentation' %}</a> /

{% endif %}
{% endif %}
{% endblock %}
{% if user.has_usable_password %}

<a href="{% url 'admin:password_change' %}">{% trans
'Change password' %}</a> /

{% endif %}

<a href="{% url 'admin:logout' %}">{% trans 'Log out'
%}</a>

{% endblock %}

Cheers

Mike