django-suit-sortable

Drag-and-drop ordering for objects and inlines in Django admin using django-suit.

Installation

pip install -e git://github.com/JP74/django-suit-sortable.git#egg=suit_sortable

Configuration

1. Add suit_sortable to your INSTALLED_APPS.
2. Ensure django.core.context_processors.static is in your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS.

To use suit_sortable you must do following:

In your models.py file add integer property for sortable to you model:

from django.db import models

class Category(models.Model):
    ...
    position = models.PositiveIntegerField()

Adding Sortable to an existing model

If you're adding Sorting to an existing model, it is recommended that you use django-south to create a schema migration to add the "position" field to your model. You will also need to create a data migration in order to add the appropriate values for the position column.

Example assuming a model named "Category":

def forwards(self, orm):
    for index, category in enumerate(orm.Category.objects.all()):
        category.position = index + 1
        category.save()

Django Admin Integration

To enable sorting in the admin, you need to inherit from SortableAdmin and add a list_editable column for the position field:

from django.contrib import admin
from myapp.models import MySortableClass
from suit_sortable.admin import SortableAdmin

class MySortableAdminClass(SortableAdmin):
    list_display = (..., 'position',)
    list_editable = ('position',)
    """Any other admin options you need go here"""

admin.site.register(MySortableClass, MySortableAdminClass)

To enable sorting on TabularInline models, you need to inherit from SortableTabularInline:

from suit_sortable.admin import SortableTabularInline

class MySortableTabularInline(SortableTabularInline):
   """Your inline options go here"""

To enable sorting on StackedInline models, you need to inherit from SortableStackedInline:

from suit_sortable.admin import SortableStackedInline

class MySortableStackedInline(SortableStackedInline):
   """Your inline options go here"""

Limitations

Since sortables are based on JavaScript solution, there are known limitations:

1. It doesn't work with pagination.