Django-CMS IntegrationΒΆ

Django-CMS plugins use their own change form, and thus won’t automatically include the necessary JavaScript for django-admin-sortable to work. Fortunately, this is easy to resolve, as the CMSPlugin class allows a change form template to be specified:

# example plugin
from cms.plugin_base import CMSPluginBase

class CMSCarouselPlugin(CMSPluginBase):
    admin_preview = False
    change_form_template = 'cms/sortable-stacked-inline-change-form.html'
    inlines = [SlideInline]
    model = Carousel
    name = _('Carousel')
    render_template = 'carousels/carousel.html'

    def render(self, context, instance, placeholder):
        context.update({
            'carousel': instance,
            'placeholder': placeholder
        })
        return context

plugin_pool.register_plugin(CMSCarouselPlugin)

The contents of sortable-stacked-inline-change-form.html at a minimum need to extend the extrahead block with:

{% extends "admin/cms/page/plugin_change_form.html" %}
{% load static from staticfiles %}

{% block extrahead %}
    {{ block.super }}
    <script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'adminsortable/js/jquery-ui-django-admin.min.js' %}"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'adminsortable/js/jquery.django-csrf.js' %}"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'adminsortable/js/admin.sortable.stacked.inlines.js' %}"></script>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'adminsortable/css/admin.sortable.inline.css' %}" />
{% endblock extrahead %}

Sorting within Django-CMS is really only feasible for inline models of a plugin as Django-CMS already includes sorting for plugin instances. For tabular inlines, just substitute:

<script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'adminsortable/js/admin.sortable.stacked.inlines.js' %}"></script>

with:

<script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'adminsortable/js/admin.sortable.tabular.inlines.js' %}"></script>