I'm creating some custom views for the Django admin interface that use the standard change-list as an interim stage. This works fine, apart from the fact the change-list page H1 is 'Select object to change'. 'Change' is not the right verb for the action the user will be undertaking in my custom views.
I have found the django.contrib.admin templates that control the layout of the change-list pages (change_list.html and change_list_results.html) but I cannot find where the title is supplied from. I'm guessing it is a variable passed in by a view someplace?
How can I override this text with something less misleading e.g. 'Select object' instead of 'Select object to change'? I'm OK with changing it across all the change-list views, not just the particular ones I'm trying to customise; but I'd prefer a solution that is an override as opposed to a modification of the django.contrib.admin code if possible.
Update: I have found the view responsible for the change list, it's main.py in django\contrib\admin\views. The variable is self.title on line 69 (Django 1.0). I have acheived the result I am looking for by editing this line
self.title = (self.is_popup and ugettext('Select %s') % force_unicode(self.opts.verbose_name) or ugettext('Select %s to change') % force_unicode(self.opts.verbose_name))
to read
self.title = (self.is_popup and ugettext('Select %s') % force_unicode(self.opts.verbose_name) or ugettext('Select %s') % force_unicode(self.opts.verbose_name))
I'd still be really interested to hear a better way of achieving the same result that doesn't involve hacking the django.contrib.admin code - it looks like there already is an option to have the title the way I'd like it, but I'm not sure how to trigger that?
There is already ticket for ChangeList customization: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/9749. This will give the ability to change many additional aspects of admin application. Unfortunately there is no clean way to achieve your goals.