django filer folder permissions

[wagnerfelix]

Hi,

first of all thank you for regularly updating your code.
I would like to request a change for the folder permission admin. We have quite a few permissions and since the list is growing it would be great if the list could be ordered by "pretty_logical_path" and "who". Now i already tried simply adding ordering = ("pretty_logical_path", ) to the PermissionAdmin but that or any other ordering did not have any effect. I guess you can't order by string? Any help would be appreciated.

Regards

[fsbraun]

Unfortunately, Django admin does the ordering on queryset level. pretty_logical_path is not a database field and also cannot simply be recreated in a queryset since it would require Common Table Expressions (for recursive chaining of the path) which Django does not support out of the box. A similar situation is present in the who field.

An alternative might be creating a custom filter which would allow to only show certain users, groups, etc. or certain folders. I have not done this, but it might be worth exploring.

@vinitkumar Do you have any thoughts?