change list display link in django admin

The solution was to override the init and set the list_display_links to None e.g.

class FooModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):    fields = ('foo','bar')    list_display = ('foo_link','bar')    def foo_link(self,obj):        return u'<a href="/foos/%s/">%s</a>' % (obj.foo,obj)    foo_link.allow_tags = True    foo_link.short_description = "foo"    def __init__(self,*args,**kwargs):        super(FooModelAdmin, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)        self.list_display_links = (None, )

I believe the correct way of doing it, is subclassing ChangeList and override the url_for_result method to create the correct change url you want.

Override the get_changelist in the admin.ModelAdmin subclass to return the new class:

from django.contrib.admin.views.main import ChangeListfrom django.contrib.admin.util import quoteclass FooChangeList(ChangeList):    def url_for_result(self, result):        pk = getattr(result, self.pk_attname)        return '/foos/foo/%d/' % (quote(pk))class FooAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):    def get_changelist(self, request, **kwargs):        return FooChangeList

By default the first column of list display will be link to the admin edit page. If you want another column or columns to be that link, a very easy way is as follows:

class FooModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):    list_display = ('foo_link', 'bar', 'another_bar', )    list_display_links = ('foo_link', 'another_bar', )

If foo_link is not a property of the model, it should be a callable like the following:

class FooModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):    list_display = ('foo_link', 'bar', 'another_bar', )    list_display_links = ('foo_link', 'another_bar', )    def foo_link(self, obj):        return "%s blah blah" % obj.some_property # or anything you prefer e.g. an edit button

A full example from my project:

class SchoolTeacherAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):    list_display = ('name', 'designation', 'school_name', 'school_code', 'date_of_birth', 'mobile', 'nid', 'edit', )    list_display_links = ('edit', )    def school_code(self, obj):        return obj.school.code    def school_name(self, obj):        return obj.school.name.upper()    def edit(self, obj):        return "Edit"