Can you add parameters to Django custom admin actions?
See: Actions that Provide Intermediate Pages
You can't do it right from the changelist page, but on your intermediate page, you could have a form that would allow the user to enter a value, and then use that value for the action.
It is possible with Django 1.5, though its a little hackish. I am not sure with what other older Django versions it's possible.
You write your own ModelAdmin subclass. ModelAdmin has an attribute called action_form
which determines the form shown before Go
button on changelist page. You can write your own form, and set it as action_form on your ModelAdmin subclass.
from django import formsfrom django.contrib.admin.helpers import ActionForm# ActionForm is the default form used by Django# You can extend this classclass XForm(ActionForm): x_field = forms.CharField() class YourModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): action_form = XForm
With these changes, you will have a CharField
, where you can put value for X
.
And use x_field
in your action function.
def set_x_on_objects(modeladmin, request, queryset): for obj in queryset: obj.something = request.POST['x_field'] # do whatever else you wantclass YourModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): action_form = XForm actions = [set_x_on_objects]