Django-mptt-admin provides a nice Django Admin interface for django-mptt models. The source is available on https://github.com/mbraak/django-mptt-admin. It uses the jqTree library.

The package is tested with Django (1.7 - 1.9), and django-mptt (0.7.x and higher). Also with Python 2.7, 3.3-3.5.

Install the package:

$ pip install django-mptt-admin

Add django_mptt_admin to your installed apps in settings.py.

  INSTALLED_APPS = (
      ..
      'django_mptt_admin',
  )

Use the DjangoMpttAdmin class in admin.py:

    from django.contrib import admin
    from django_mptt_admin.admin import DjangoMpttAdmin
    from models import Country

    class CountryAdmin(DjangoMpttAdmin):
        pass

    admin.site.register(Country, CountryAdmin)

tree_auto_open

Auto-open node. Default value is 1.

Values:

• True: autopen all nodes
• False: do not autoopen
• integer: autopen until this level

tree_load_on_demand

Load on demand (True / False / level). Default is True.

• True: load nodes on demand
• False: do not load nodes on demand
• int: load nodes on demand until this level

autoescape

Autoescape (True / False). Default is True.

Autoescape titles in tree.

filter_tree_queryset

Override the filter_tree_queryset method to filter the queyset for the tree.

class CountryAdmin(DjangoMpttAdmin):
  def filter_tree_queryset(self, queryset):
    return queryset.filter(name='abc')

use_context_menu

True / False. Default is False.

"useContextMenu" option for tree.

0.3.6 (march 28 2016)

• Issue 125: fix jQuery.cookie error (thanks to Patrick Colmant)

0.3.5 (march 28 2016)

• Issue 126: add missing jqtree-circle.png (thanks to Generalov)

0.3.4 (march 25 2016)

• Issue 115: implemented 'add' button (thanks to Andrew Dodd)
• Issue 116: fix block-style layout for right-to-left-languages
• Issue 119: display transparent loading image

0.3.3 (february 10 2016)

• Issue 112: correctly override media (thanks to Generalov)

0.3.2 (january 29 2016)

• Issue 103: use jquery from django admin itself
• Issue 105: added Turkish translation (thanks to Tagmat)
• Issue 106: use the same colors as the Django admin
• Issue 109: include locale files in package

0.3.1 (december 2 2015)

• Issue 82: make admin views easily extendable (thanks to Vsevolod Novikov)
• Issue 93: flat styling
• Issue 95: update jqtree to 1.3.0
• Issue 96: cannot move to the top of the tree
• Issue 97: support Django 1.9

0.3.0 (august 21 2015)

• Issue 67: update jqtree to 1.2.1
• Issue 68: drop support for Django 1.6 and older
  • Note that version 0.2.1 supports these versions.
• Issue 71: added use_context_menu option (thanks to ITCase)
• Issue 75: added Russian translation (thanks to Mike Silonov)
• Issue 80: fix wrong url resolving with multiple admin sites (thanks to Hubert Bielenia)

0.2.1 (march 29 2015)

• Issue 65: support Django 1.8

0.2.0 (january 12 2015)

• Issue 23: fixed save-state for load-on-demand
• Issue 35: fixed auto-open for load-on-demand
• Issue 40: use jqtree 1.0.0
• Issue 45: added i18n support and Hebrew translation (thanks to Udi Oron)
• Issue 47: added filter_tree_queryset method

0.1.10 (september 24 2014)

• Issue 31: added autoescape option
• Issue 34: use the default change list in popup mode (thanks to hstanev)
• Issue 36: the option tree_load_on_demand = False does not work

0.1.9 (july 12 2014)

• Issue 25: update jqtree to 0.21.0
• Issue 28: fixing problems related to working with model's pk-field, named other than "id" (thanks to Igor Gai)
• Issue 29: fix path to spinner.gif (thanks to Igor Gai)

0.1.8 (februari 2 2014)

• Issue 17: handle error when moving node
• Issue 18: do not use inline javascript
• Issue 19: support Django 1.7 alpha

0.1.7 (january 3 2014)

• Issue 16: moving a node fails if the node id is a uuid

0.1.6 (october 10 2013)

• Issue 8: removing node from the tree causes the tree view to crash

0.1.5 (august 27 2013)

• Issue 6: save the tree state
• Issue 7: do not handle the right mouse click

0.1.4 (august 8 2013)

• Issue 5: Support for uuid ids

0.1.3 (may 2 2013)

This version drops support for Django 1.3.7

• Issue 2: Posting a screenshot in the readme would be really useful (thanks to Andy Baker)
• Issue 3: Use static templatetag for CDN-compatible file paths (thanks to Alex Holmes)
• Added Coveralls support

0.1.2 (march 12 2013)

• Issue 1: Grid view doesn't link correctly to object change pages (thanks to Kris Fields)

0.1.1 (februari 25 2013)

• Added experimental Python 3 support

0.1 (februari 7 2013)

• Initial version