Filtering by custom date range in Django admin

Question

Can Django admin site select entries by a custom date range, i.e. using two DateFields with AdminDateWidget? I know that there are date_hierarchy and list_filter properties, but they don't seem very useful when there are a lot of DB entries and you just need to filter items by exact date__gte and date__lte query.

Answer 1

This functionality isn't provided as far as I'm aware, but you can build it yourself.

Firstly, you can filter items using date__gte and date__lte as GET arguments in the url.

For example

/admin/myapp/bar/?date__gte=2009-5-1&date__lt=2009-8-1

will display all bar objects with dates in May, June or July 2009.

Then if you override the admin/change_list.html template file, you can add widgets for start and end dates, which navigate to the required url.

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Hat tip to Daniel's answer to another SO question, which taught me about using queryset filter parameters as GET arguments.