django-admin-notification

django-admin-notification is a Django app to display notification in Django admin panel.

Installation

Run pip install django-admin-notification
Add admin_notification to settings.INSTALLED_APPS before django.contrib.admin

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    #...
    "admin_notification",
    #...
    "django.contrib.admin",
    #...
)

Settings

NOTIFICATION_MODELS: A list of models which you want to get notified about them in the django admin panel. the correct format for each element of the list is app.model

NOTIFICATION_MODELS = ['myapp.MyModel']

ADMIN_SITE_BASE_URL: An string representing the url to django admin page, if you have changed the base url of the admin site in settings.py, the default is "admin/":

ADMIN_SITE_BASE_URL = 'admin_site_base_url/'

Urls

check_notifications: This view is needed to keep track of notifications and redirecting to the corresponding models admin page. you must add this view into your urls list.

...
from admin_notification.views import check_notification_view
urlpatterns = [
    path('check/notification', check_notification_view, name="check_notifications"),
    ...
]

Note: You are free to change the url but keep the name the same as it is in the example.

Run

Run python manage.py migrate
Restart your application server
Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/
Create an instance of any of the NOTIFICATION_MODELS and enjoy :)