Re: effective adding records in Django site admin

If you want the ability to make copies of multiple records at once, or just want the "copy" option to appear at the top of the object list instead of having to click through into each record, it's pretty easy to set up an Admin Action. Here's one I use in a system that lets staffers duplicate Course records from one semester to another.  In admin.py:

# Custom Admin Action enables making a complete copy of a course (like a Save As...)

def make_copy(modeladmin, request, queryset):

    for obj in queryset:

        # Make a copy in memory

        # Override the ID so the db can auto_increment -- otherwise we overwrite the original!

        # Update the title of the new object

        n = obj

        n.id = None

        n.title = "NEW COPY OF: " + obj.title 

        n.save()

        request.user.message_set.create(message="Selected courses have been copied. Remember to set their Instructors and Programs!")

make_copy.short_description = "Make copies of selected courses"

.....

                

class CourseAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    list_display = ('jstring','title', 'ccn', 'semester')

    search_fields = ('title','jstring__name')

    actions = [make_copy]

    form = CourseAdminForm

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