I am 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?