Getting Django admin url for an object

You can use the URL resolver directly in a template, there's no need to write your own filter. E.g.

{% url 'admin:index' %}

{% url 'admin:polls_choice_add' %}

{% url 'admin:polls_choice_change' choice.id %}

{% url 'admin:polls_choice_changelist' %}

Ref: Documentation

from django.core.urlresolvers import reversedef url_to_edit_object(obj):  url = reverse('admin:%s_%s_change' % (obj._meta.app_label,  obj._meta.model_name),  args=[obj.id] )  return u'<a href="%s">Edit %s</a>' % (url,  obj.__unicode__())

This is similar to hansen_j's solution except that it uses url namespaces, admin: being the admin's default application namespace.

I had a similar issue where I would try to call reverse('admin_index') and was constantly getting django.core.urlresolvers.NoReverseMatch errors.

Turns out I had the old format admin urls in my urls.py file.

I had this in my urlpatterns:

(r'^admin/(.*)', admin.site.root),

which gets the admin screens working but is the deprecated way of doing it. I needed to change it to this:

(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls) ),

Once I did that, all the goodness that was promised in the Reversing Admin URLs docs started working.