NOTE: This project was rewritten to be more flexible and to work with common Django admin and released as django-admin-charts. The django-admin-charts project is backward-compatible with django-admin-tools-stats, so you can migrate to that. All development and maintanence continues on django-admin-charts repository.

Django-admin-tools-stats is a Django admin module that allow you to create easily charts on your dashboard based on specific models and criterias.

It will query your models and provide reporting and statistics graphs, simple to read and display on your Dashboard.

Install, upgrade and uninstall django-admin-tools-stats with these commands:

$ pip install django-admin-tools-stats

django-admin-tools-stats is a django based application, the major requirements are :

• python-dateutil
• django-jsonfield
• django-qsstats-magic
• django-cache-utils
• django-admin-tools
• django-nvd3
• django-bower

• Configure admin_tools

• Configure django-bower

  • Add django-bower to INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py:

    INSTALLED_APPS = (
        ...
        'djangobower'
    )
    

  • Add the following properties to you settings.py file:

    # Specifie path to components root (you need to use absolute path)
    BOWER_COMPONENTS_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'components')
    BOWER_INSTALLED_APPS = (
        'jquery#3.4.1',
        'jquery-ui#1.12.1',
        'd3#3.3.13',
        'nvd3#1.7.1',
    )
    

  • Add django-bower finder to your static file finders:

    STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
        ...
        'djangobower.finders.BowerFinder',
    )
    

  • Run the following commands. These will download nvd3.js and its dependencies using bower and throw them in to you static folder for access by your application:

    $ python manage.py bower_install
    $ python manage.py collectstatic
    

• Add admin_tools_stats & django_nvd3 into INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py:

  INSTALLED_APPS = (
      ...
      'admin_tools_stats',
      'django_nvd3',
  )
  

• Add following code to dashboard.py:

  from admin_tools_stats.modules import DashboardCharts, get_active_graph
  # append an app list module
  self.children.append(modules.AppList(
      _('Dashboard Stats Settings'),
      models=('admin_tools_stats.*', ),
  ))
  # Copy following code into your custom dashboard
  # append following code after recent actions module or
  # a link list module for "quick links"
  graph_list = get_active_graph()
  for i in graph_list:
      kwargs = {}
      kwargs['require_chart_jscss'] = True
      kwargs['graph_key'] = i.graph_key
      for key in context['request'].POST:
          if key.startswith('select_box_'):
              kwargs[key] = context['request'].POST[key]
      self.children.append(DashboardCharts(**kwargs))
  

• To create the tables needed by Django-admin-tools-stats, run the following command:

  $ python manage.py syncdb
  

• You may also need to add some includes to your template admin base, see an example on the demo project:

  demoproject/demoproject/templates/admin/base_site.html

• Open admin panel, configure Dashboard Stats Criteria & Dashboard Stats respectively

If you've found a bug, add a feature or improve django-admin-tools-stats and think it is useful then please consider contributing. Patches, pull requests or just suggestions are always welcome!

Source code: https://github.com/areski/django-admin-tools-stats

Bug tracker: https://github.com/areski/django-admin-tools-stats/issues

Documentation is available on 'Read the Docs': https://readthedocs.org/docs/django-admin-tools-stats/

Copyright (c) 2011-2017 Star2Billing S.L. <info@star2billing.com>

django-admin-tools-stats is licensed under MIT, see MIT-LICENSE.txt.