Diagram of django view lifecycle

Using Django The Admin
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Hey Chris, replying here for other people who land here looking for the same.
Your best bet would be to print something suggestive within each method of the classes BaseModelAdmin & ModelAdmin, you can find them under site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py

This is what I got, but keep in mind that this is the general order, not all methods will be executed for every action in the admin interface.

  1. get_changelist
  2. get_changelist_form
  3. get_changelist_formset
  4. get_form
  5. get_fieldsets
  6. get_prepopulated_fields
  7. get_readonly_fields
  8. get_queryset
  9. get_search_results
  10. get_urls
  11. get_inline_instances
  12. get_object
  13. formfield_for_foreignkey
  14. formfield_for_manytomany
  15. formfield_for_choice_field
  16. formfield_for_dbfield
  17. save_related
  18. delete_model
  19. save_model
  20. save_formset
  21. log_addition
  22. log_change
  23. log_deletion
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