wagtail/docs/reference/contrib/modeladmin/inspectview.rst

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Enabling & customising ``InspectView``
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The ``InspectView`` is disabled by default, as it's not often useful for most
models. However, if you need a view that enables users to view more detailed
information about an instance without the option to edit it, you can easily
enable the inspect view by setting ``inspect_view_enabled=True`` on your
``ModelAdmin`` class.

When ``InspectView`` is enabled, an 'Inspect' button will automatically appear for each row in
your index / listing view, linking to a new page that shows a list of
field values for that particular object.

By default, all 'concrete' fields (where the field value is stored as a column
in the database table for your model) will be shown. You can customise what
values are displayed by adding the following attributes to your ``ModelAdmin``
class:

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.. _modeladmin_inspect_view_fields:

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``ModelAdmin.inspect_view_fields``
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**Expected value:** A list or tuple, where each item is the name of a field
or attribute on the instance that you'd like ``InspectView`` to render.

A sensible value will be rendered for most field types.

If you have ``wagtail.images`` installed, and the value happens to be an
instance of ``wagtailimages.models.Image`` (or a custom model that subclasses
``wagtailimages.models.AbstractImage``), a thumbnail of that image will be
rendered.

If you have `wagtail.documents` installed, and the value happens to be an
instance of `wagtaildocs.models.Document` (or a custom model that subclasses
``wagtaildocs.models.AbstractDocument``), a link to that document will be
rendered, along with the document title, file extension and size.

.. _modeladmin_inspect_view_fields_exclude:

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``ModelAdmin.inspect_view_fields_exclude``
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**Expected value:** A list or tuple, where each item is the name of a field
that you'd like to exclude from ``InspectView``

**Note:** If both ``inspect_view_fields`` and ``inspect_view_fields_exclude``
are set, ``inspect_view_fields_exclude`` will be ignored.

.. _modeladmin_inspect_view_extra_css:

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``ModelAdmin.inspect_view_extra_css``
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**Expected value**: A list of path names of additional stylesheets to be added
to the ``InspectView``

See the following part of the docs to find out more:
:ref:`modeladmin_adding_css_and_js`

.. _modeladmin_inspect_view_extra_js:

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``ModelAdmin.inspect_view_extra_js``
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**Expected value**: A list of path names of additional js files to be added
to the ``InspectView``

See the following part of the docs to find out more:
:ref:`modeladmin_adding_css_and_js`

.. _modeladmin_inspect_template_name:

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``ModelAdmin.inspect_template_name``
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**Expected value**: The path to a custom template to use for ``InspectView``

See the following part of the docs to find out more:
:ref:`modeladmin_overriding_templates`

.. _modeladmin_inspect_view_class:

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``ModelAdmin.inspect_view_class``
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**Expected value**: A custom ``view`` class to replace
``modeladmin.views.InspectView``

See the following part of the docs to find out more:
:ref:`modeladmin_overriding_views`