I also have a case where I would need to bulk add items from a file, the client receives an excel file with products (up to a couple of hundreds). I still haven't implemented nothing yet as the feature doesn't have priority, in any case I thought adding a file upload option on the admin, or maybe a bulk add option in manage would make more sense.
in any case I don't think it would be the case of changing your model as you don't need to store this info (the file name). in any case I believe you would need to add something custom, maybe someone has some kind of template code for bulk adding from file, I believe this could be fairly common. any thoughts? please update on the path you took. best luck avraham On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:32 AM, MNG1138 <[email protected]> wrote: > Say I've got a model like this: > > class Product(models.Model): > > name = models.CharField(max_length=**200) > > class ProductItem(models.Model): > product = models.ForeignKey(Product) > serialnumber = models.charField() > sold = models.BooleanField(default=False) > > ProductItem represents physical products in the store. I have a file with > thousands of serial #'s for the product. In the product form in the admin, > I'd like to upload this file, parse the serial #'s and create rows in > ProductItem. I could add a FileField to Product and create a custom > storage that parses the file and creates ProductITems. Or I could override > save for the Product model. Both of these solutions are non-optimal, as I > will have a FileField in Product and db that I don't need. > > Is there any way to add a 'dummy' FileField just for the form that doesn't > result in a DB row? Or is the answer to create a custom admin form? Any > good tutorials or examples for doing creating a custom admin form? > > Thanks, > Mark > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/efDj8ZO4QXIJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
