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radious
radious

Reputation: 830

Adding custom action to UserModel's Admin page

Is there any possibility to create custom action in admin page for django UserModel? I want automatize adding user to group (like adding him to staff, set some extra values, etc.), and of course create actions that take these changes back.

Thanks for your help.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 5188

Answers (2)

Artem Bernatskyi
Artem Bernatskyi

Reputation: 4667

Working example without losing all default inline actions etc.
Here we will add action which activates selected users.

from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin


def make_active(modeladmin, news, queryset):
    queryset.update(is_active=True)
make_active.short_description = u"Activate selected Users"

class CustomUserAdmin(UserAdmin):
    actions = [make_active]


admin.site.unregister(User)
admin.site.register(User, CustomUserAdmin)

Upvotes: 4

Davor Lucic
Davor Lucic

Reputation: 29390

Import User in your admin.py unregister it, create new ModelAdmin for it (or subclass the default one) and go wild.

It would look something like this I guess:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class UserAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    actions = ['some_action']

    def some_action(self, request, queryset):
        #do something ...
    some_action.short_description = "blabla"

admin.site.unregister(User)
admin.site.register(User, UserAdmin)

Reference for actions.

Upvotes: 16

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