What is the recommended approach to implement admin-actions-alike functionality outside admin?

Question

I've been searching a way to reproduce admin-actions behavior on my own tables using django-tables2. I haven't found any module to introduce this functionality to a ListView to derive from it and looking at ModelAdmin I see there are many methods implied on this. Of course, I can add a form around my table to get the checkboxes and a submit button pointing to a view that works with the ids but I'm looging to get a combo to choose among different actions as in django-admin but also to have that 'actions' meta option to list some methods as the possible actions to perform. I found django-actions which is still very young but also it introduces it's own page for operations and I just need to integrate functionality on my own model so I can connect some input type=select with the model actions. Any comment is appreciated :)

Answer 1

There is no built-in solution for it. You have to implement your actions in your views and the functionality to your templates.

Add, edit and delete operations are very easy to implement in your views.py. This depends on your models, but you can trigger database manipulations from within your templates and keep the logic in your views.py.

You can also easily add a form to your templates as it is described in the docs:

# forms.py

from django.forms import ModelForm
from myapp.models import Article

# Create the form class.
class ArticleForm(ModelForm):
     class Meta:
         model = Article
         fields = ['pub_date', 'headline', 'content', 'reporter']

model := Choose your model which you want to modify / add
fields := Select some fields from your model, which you want to show up in your form

This defines a form corresponding to your model, which can be used in your templates to modify or add an entity to your database.