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I was trying to set the initial value for a choice field in the admin like this:

from django import forms
from django.contrib import admin
from mptt.admin import MPTTModelAdmin
from author.models import Author
from serials.constants import STATUS_CHOICES

class AuthorAdminForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Author

class AuthorAdmin(MPTTModelAdmin):
    form = AuthorAdminForm(initial={'status': STATUS_CHOICES[0][0]})
admin.site.register(Author, AuthorAdmin)

Logically, I should have been able to do it this way, I thought, at least according to the docs. But instead it was giving me this error: TypeError: issubclass() arg 1 must be a class. (Uh, ok.) After a bit of searching, I eventually found this comment, and realized I must be trying to instantiate a form that the admin would instantiate automatically, had already been instantiated, or something like that.

After some more searching, I found the answer on the way to do what I needed here:

from django import forms
from django.contrib import admin
from mptt.admin import MPTTModelAdmin
from author.models import Author
from serials.constants import STATUS_CHOICES

class AuthorAdminForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Author

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(AuthorAdminForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.initial['status'] = STATUS_CHOICES[0][0]
            
class AuthorAdmin(MPTTModelAdmin):
    form = AuthorAdminForm
admin.site.register(Author, AuthorAdmin)

Yay! Hope this helps someone else who has the same issue. :)

To add a link to an admin page on the user-side of your django site, you can use the named url patterns. (Seems like a simple and fairly straightforward thing to want to do, but I frequently find that things are not so simply found in most open source docs, nor are the examples always useful. But my usual open source docs rant is for another day. *g*)

It took a bit of digging, but I finally found that the admin url pattern options are listed here. From that, I was able to figure out that if I wanted to link to the edit (change action) page (parameter) for an article (model) in the app article, the pattern was:

{{ app_label }}_{{ model_name }}_action [parameters]

The namespace for the admin is, of course, admin, so putting that together using the {% url %} template tag, you get:

<a href="{% url 'admin:article_article_change' article.pk %}">{% trans 'Edit' %}</a>

That correctly creates the relative url to /admin/article/article/2. Yay!

Be sure to load the admin template tags in your template, too, or it won't work:

{% load admin_urls %}

Et voilà! *vbg* Hope this saves someone else a bit of time.

(This works for Django 1.4, btw.)

This is the code for a Django template tag I adapted (also posted here). It was based on this snippet, adapted to split a list into n number of sublists, e.g. split a list of results into three evenly-divided sublists to enable display of the results in three columns on one page with CSS.
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