# Enabling & customising `InspectView`

The `InspectView` is disabled by default, as it's not often useful for most models. However, if you need a view that enables users to view more detailed information about an instance without the option to edit it, you can easily
enable the inspect view by setting `inspect_view_enabled=True` on your `ModelAdmin` class.

When `InspectView` is enabled, an 'Inspect' button will automatically appear for each row in your index / listing view, linking to a new page that shows a list of field values for that particular object.

By default, all 'concrete' fields (where the field value is stored as a column in the database table for your model) will be shown. You can customise what values are displayed by adding the following attributes to your `ModelAdmin` class:

```{contents}
---
local:
depth: 1
---
```

(modeladmin_inspect_view_fields)=

## `ModelAdmin.inspect_view_fields`

**Expected value:** A list or tuple, where each item is the name of a field or attribute on the instance that you'd like `InspectView` to render.

A sensible value will be rendered for most field types.

If you have `wagtail.images` installed, and the value happens to be an instance of `wagtailimages.models.Image` (or a custom model that subclasses `wagtailimages.models.AbstractImage`), a thumbnail of that image will be rendered.

If you have `wagtail.documents` installed, and the value happens to be an instance of `wagtaildocs.models.Document` (or a custom model that subclasses `wagtaildocs.models.AbstractDocument`), a link to that document will be rendered, along with the document title, file extension and size.

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## `ModelAdmin.inspect_view_fields_exclude`

**Expected value:** A list or tuple, where each item is the name of a field that you'd like to exclude from `InspectView`

**Note:** If both `inspect_view_fields` and `inspect_view_fields_exclude` are set, `inspect_view_fields_exclude` will be ignored.

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## `ModelAdmin.inspect_view_extra_css`

**Expected value**: A list of path names of additional stylesheets to be added to the `InspectView`

See the following part of the docs to find out more: [](modeladmin_adding_css_and_js)

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## `ModelAdmin.inspect_view_extra_js`

**Expected value**: A list of path names of additional js files to be added to the `InspectView`

See the following part of the docs to find out more: [](modeladmin_adding_css_and_js)

(modeladmin_inspect_template_name)=

## `ModelAdmin.inspect_template_name`

**Expected value**: The path to a custom template to use for `InspectView`

See the following part of the docs to find out more: [](modeladmin_overriding_templates)

(modeladmin_inspect_view_class)=

## `ModelAdmin.inspect_view_class`

**Expected value**: A custom `view` class to replace `modeladmin.views.InspectView`

See the following part of the docs to find out more: [](modeladmin_overriding_views)