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Admin Save and view next button

Author:
ungenio41
Posted:
May 2, 2010
Language:
Python
Version:
1.1
Score:
2 (after 2 ratings)

Add a Save and view next button to your admin change form.

Put the code at link in a file called myapp/templates/admin/myapp/change_form.html

Note: Requires Django 1.2. 

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"""admin.py"""
from django.contrib import admin
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from django.utils.encoding import force_unicode
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
from myapp.models import MyModel


class MyAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    def response_change(self, request, obj):
        """
        Determines the HttpResponse for the change_view stage.
        """
        if request.POST.has_key("_viewnext"):
            msg = (_('The %(name)s "%(obj)s" was changed successfully.') %
                   {'name': force_unicode(obj._meta.verbose_name),
                    'obj': force_unicode(obj)})
            next = obj.__class__.objects.filter(id__gt=obj.id).order_by('id')[:1]
            if next:
                self.message_user(request, msg)
                return HttpResponseRedirect("../%s/" % next[0].pk)
        return super(MyAdmin, self).response_change(request, obj)


admin.site.register(MyModel, MyAdmin)

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Comments

gamesbook (on December 11, 2012):

The problem is that this does not test where the "next" item is in terms of the existing ordering.

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