Autoreports is a Django application that lets you create reports in very Django Admin listing

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.admin',

    #.....................#

    'autoreports',
)

urlpatterns = patterns('',

    #...#

    (r'^autoreports/', include('autoreports.urls')),

    #...#
)

Link the media files in your project media directory

cd {{ MEDIA_ROOT }}
ln -s {{ AUTOREPORTS_FORM_PATH }}media/ autoreports

Redefine 'admin/change_list.html' templates as follows

{% load adminmedia admin_list i18n autoreports_tags %} {# add auto_reports_tags #}

#...#

{% block object-tools %}
  {% if has_add_permission %}
    <ul class="object-tools">
      <li>
        <a href="add/{% if is_popup %}?_popup=1{% endif %}" class="addlink">
          {% blocktrans with cl.opts.verbose_name as name %}Add {{ name }}{% endblocktrans %}
        </a>
      </li>
      {% autoreports_admin %} {# add this stuff #}
    </ul>
  {% endif %}
{% endblock %}

#...#

By default it will takes 'list_display' fields to export in CSV. You can redefine it in every model admin you want:

from autoreports.admin import ReportAdmin

 #...#

class FooModelAdmin(ReportAdmin, admin.ModelAdmin):
    pass

You have to api, and you can export to CSV each models.

/autoreports/app_label/module_name/
/autoreports/app_label/module_name/?filter1=value1

You have for each change list 4 new actions:

Report to csv the same that you see in the changelist. Works the filters and the searcher

You have a form to filter. You can customizer this form.

class FooModelAdmin(ReportAdmin, admin.ModelAdmin):
   report_filter_fields = ('description', 'category', ...)
   report_display_fields = ('name', 'description',  ...)

If you don't define this attributes, report_filter_fields and report_display_fields have the value of list_display

You can create a new "Advanced reports", with this wizard

A list of "Advanced reports" thet you created with the wizard

You can have this functionality in the public view, if you registry some Model: To access /autoreports/.

from autoreports.registry import report_registry
from autoreports.api import ReportApi

#...#

class ModelApi(ReportApi):
   category = 'contrato'
   category_verbosename = 'Contrato'


report_registry.register_api(Model, ModelApi)

You can set some settings and autoreports adapt itself:

• AUTOREPORTS_BASE_TEMPLATE = 'base.html' # Indicate of the base template
• AUTOREPORTS_FUNCTIONS = True # If you want that the funcions can choose in the wizard
• AUTOREPORTS_INITIAL = True # If you want that the advanced forms have to default the initial values
• AUTOREPORTS_I18N = False # If you want have the forms (that you created with the wizard) in various languages
• AUTOREPORTS_SUBFIX = True # If you want that in the filter set the filter brackets
• AUTOREPORTS_ADAPTOR = {'datetime': 'myappreport.fields.DateTimeFieldReportField'} # If you want change some adaptor
• AUTOREPORTS_WIZARDFIELD = 'myappreport.wizards.MyWizardField' # If you want change the WizardField
• AUTOREPORTS_USE_CMSUTILS = True # If autoreports should use cmsutils package

You can get the last bleeding edge version of autoreports by doing a clone of its git repository:

git clone https://github.com/Yaco-Sistemas/django-autoreports.git