The Django administration system provides actions that we can execute for selected items in the list. There is one action given by default and it is used to delete selected instances. In this recipe, we will create an additional action for the list of the Product
model that allows the administrators to export selected products to Excel spreadsheets.
We will start with the products
app that we created in the previous recipe.
Make sure that you have the xlwt
module installed in your virtual environment to create an Excel spreadsheet:
(myproject_env)$ pip install xlwt
Admin actions are functions that take three arguments: the current ModelAdmin
value, the current HttpRequest
value, and the QuerySet
value containing the selected items. Perform the following steps to create a custom admin action:
Let's create an
export_xls()
function in theadmin.py
file of the products app, as follows:# products/admin.py # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- from __future__ import...