django-fsm-admin-lite

Integrate django-fsm state transitions into Django Admin.

Alternative of django-fsm-admin, with a lighter version of the frontend part.

Features:

• display available transitions in model admin so that user can apply them
• mark FSM protected fields as read only

Limitations:

• transition methods parameters are not handled

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Installation

pip install django-fsm-admin-lite

Or, for the latest git version

python -m pip install 'django-fsm-admin-lite @ git+https://github.com/etchegom/django-fsm-admin-lite.git'

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Usage

Make you model admin class inherit from the mixin class FSMAdminMixin.

from django.contrib import admin
from fsm_admin_lite.mixins import FSMAdminMixin

@admin.register(MyModel)
class MyModelAdmin(FSMAdminMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
    fsm_fields = [
        "state",
    ]

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Configuration

Admin class attribute	Option
fsm_fields	List of FSM fields to handle
fsm_transition_success_msg	Admin message for transition success
fsm_transition_error_msg	Admin message for transition error
fsm_transition_not_allowed_msg	Admin message for transition not allowed error
fsm_transition_not_valid_msg	Admin message for transition not valid error
fsm_context_key	Template context key for FSM transitions
fsm_post_param	POST parameter name for FSM transitions

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Run example

make example

Then go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin, login with admin/password and create a new blog post object.

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TODO

• improve the default template files
• display all the transitions (not available transition should be represented as disabled buttons)