"View on site" links in list view with Django Admin

The Django admin application has this feature where when you click on an object, if that Model has a "get_absolute_url" method defined, in the corner of the page there will be a link that will go to that object on your site:



This is really handle, but how can I get that link to be put in the list view, so I don't have to click on the object first to get to that link? The answer is to define the following function in the model:

def adminlink(self):
    link = self.get_absolute_url()
    url = "http://example.com%s" % link
    link = "<a href='%s' target='_blank'>Link</a>" % url
    return link
adminlink.allow_tags = True

Make sure you include the last line. You must set the function attribute "allow_tags" in order for the admin to not escape the '<' and '>' characters.

The admin declaration, should look like this:

class MyAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('user', 'field1', 'field2', MyModel.adminlink)

admin.site.register(MyModel, MyAdmin)

Now when you look at the admin page where it lists all object of MyModel, there should be a new column with your links in it: