Ability to group related settings

[jdbit]

Hi,
Thank you for the nice app! It would be great to have a possibility to group related settings somehow, for example place them to different tabs or at least place some dividers between a group of fields/settings.

[fabiocaccamo]

Hi @jdbit,
nice suggestion!

I'm having the same need in a project with many settings, I prefixed all settings with their own context group to be able to search them quickly.

A simple and effective solution that comes to my mind (that does not impact the manual management of settings nor the database), is to add a list filter that group settings by their name prefix. The groups would be auto-detected by the application splitting the settings names on the first _ and considering as groups only prefixes that match multiple settings.

For example, having these settings:

• HEADER_TITLE
• HEADER_SUBTITLE
• HEADER_IMAGE
• BODY_TEXT
• FOOTER_EMAIL
• FOOTER_PHONE

The list filter would show two options:

• HEADER
• FOOTER

I like this solution, do you?

[jdbit]

Great, thank you!

[fabiocaccamo]

Hi @jdbit,
this feature is available by upgrading the library to 0.5.0 version and configuring the setting EXTRA_SETTINGS_SHOW_NAME_PREFIX_LIST_FILTER = True.

[jdbit]

Thank you so much for the update!

[fabiocaccamo]

Let me know how does it work for your use case.

[jdbit]

I've tested it a bit and it works just fine, thank you! I noticed that there is a description field in the admin list view, but I can't change it when create or update the option. It's a bug or feature?:)

[fabiocaccamo]

@jdbit you should be able to edit setting description from its detail view, just click on the setting name in the changelist.

[jdbit]

you are right, I thought there is no such field, not sure how I missed it:) Thanks!