What I ended up doing is customizing the ModelAdmin for the Product class. I went this route instead of adding a new form because I wanted to be able to use the admin form to search for a particular product or products, and once located, upload the serialized product file.
The admin effectively adds a file upload form to each product in the change list. I also customized the change_list.html admin template to add a submit button to the form when a file was selected for uploading. When that button is pressed, a view is called which parses the uploaded files and creates the ProductItem rows in db. While researching, I found a useful tool for easily adding pages to the django admin: https://github.com/jsocol/django-adminplus On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 6:24:34 AM UTC-7, אברהם סרור wrote: > > 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] <javascript:>>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]<javascript:> >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
