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31452	Allow to order models in the admin index and app index views	Olivier Dalang	nobody	"We should allow to display the models in a specific order per app on the admin index and the app index. Suggestion is to add a new **`order_in_index`** option on ModelAdmin.

When left to default (None), the models are sorted alphabetically (backwards compatible).

This helps deal with a common case where there is some logical order between models that does not match alphabetical order (e.g. `Continents, Countries, Counties, Cities` is much more usable than `Cities, Continents, Counties, Countries`). There is no easy way to achieve this, except by prepending verbose_name with spaces, which is not very elegant.

This of course adds yet one more configuration to ModelAdmin, but both the implementation and usage are reasonably simple compared to the readability benefit they offer.

This doesn't tackle the ordering of apps themselves, which would be nice too but is another issue."	New feature	closed	contrib.admin	3.0	Normal	duplicate	admin order		Unreviewed	1	0	0	0	1	1