django-admin-action-buttons

Replaces the default action dropdown with buttons

Before:

After:

Installation

1. pip install django-admin-action-buttons
2. Add 'admin_action_buttons', to INSTALLED_APPS
3. See "Usage" below.

Usage

There are two ways to apply django-admin-action-buttons change:

1. Blanket-style to all models in the admin
2. Selectively

Blanket

To apply the change across the entire admin:

1. Add 'admin_action_buttons.context_processors.admin_action_buttons' to context_processors For example:

   TEMPLATES = [
       {
           "BACKEND": "django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates",
           "OPTIONS": {
               "context_processors": [
                   # defaults:
                   "django.template.context_processors.debug",
                   "django.template.context_processors.request",
                   "django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
                   "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages",
                   # custom:
                   "admin_action_buttons.context_processors.admin_action_buttons",
               ],
           },
       },
   ] 

   Docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/topics/templates/#django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates The default list is documented here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/topics/templates/#django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates

2. Make sure that admin_action_buttons in INSTALLED_APPS comes BEFORE django.contrib.admin

The blanket change cen be disabled via settings:

ADMIN_ACTION_BUTTONS_ALWAYS = False

Selective

Add the mixin to any ModelAdmin you wish to tweak:

from admin_action_buttons import ActionButtonsMixin

class MyModelAdmin(ActionButtonsMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
    ...
    

Alternatively, you can add the JS media file directly:

class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    ...
    
    class Media:
        js = [
            ...
            'admin_action_buttons/admin_action_buttons.js',
        ]
        css = {
            'all': [
                'admin_action_buttons/admin_action_buttons.css',
                ...
            ],
        }

Implementation

This is a pure JS & CSS implementation.

Please report any problems via Github issues. PRs welcome.