Administration Console Custom Pages

As an application administrator, you’re likely to spend a lot of time in the Administration Console. You’re also likely to build your own administrative functionality into your app, for performing special maintenance tasks or datastore inspections. You can add your own administration pages to the Administration Console interface with application configuration. Links to your administrative pages appear in the Administrative Console sidebar. When you click a link, the page is rendered in an iframe, with the Console header, sidebar, and footer around it.

In Python, you use the admin_console element in app.yaml. This element value is a mapping to leave room for future Administration Console configuration; for now, pages is the only key. The value of pages is a list of your administration pages, each with a name and a url, like so: