[Fixed]-Display tick and cross icons for a property in the Django administration console

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You don’t want to use list_filter. The property you’re looking for is list_display. The documentation offers an example of how you can create a column that behaves like a boolean in the display. In short, you do something like this:

  1. Create a method in the class:

    def is_activated(self)
    if self.bar == 'something':
        return True
    return False

  2. add the .boolean method attribute directly below the is_activated method:

    is_activated.boolean = True

  3. Add the method as a field in list_display:

    class MyAdmin(ModelAdmin):
    list_display = [‘name’, ‘is_activated’]

  4. You’ll notice the column name is probably now “Is Activated” or something like that. If you want the column heading to change, you use the short_description method attribute:

    is_activated.short_description = "Activated"
👤Jordan Reiter

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The correct way to do this now in Django 3.0+ is with @admin.display.

    @admin.display(
      boolean=True,
      ordering='-publish_date',
      description='Is Published?', 
    ) 
    def is_published(self, obj):
        return obj.publish_date is not None
👤blakev

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