I would love to see this change implemented as well. I have a few models that would benefit from having a quick entryline at the bottom of the list_display.
Personally, I think that the first possibility, where only the items that are in the 'list_editable' tuple would be editable in the blank row makes more sense; only fields that have been designated as list editable should be editable from that view, and all others would be read-only of the default value. This would make more sense for the sake of consistency, because there may be some fields that are intentionally excluded. On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 11:26:34 AM UTC-6, Adonys wrote: > > This ticket #11574 <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/11574> is open > from many years ago. I'm interested to contribute with this new feature > but, if this ticket has a lot of time opened, and is very possible that > there are some reservations and consideration about this feature. Before > use time to build a solution, i think that will be useful discuss about > this topic with the community. > Similar to `InlineModelAdmin`, I consider that this feature won't be > useful for all models, is really useful for models with few fields. But, > adding new records directly in the `changelist` would be util like the > feature `InlineModelAdmin`, for little models. For a big model won't be > impossible, but the admin form will be more usable. > I have an idea to complete this task and is the following: > > 1. Add a new attribute to the class `ModelAdmin`, to specify how many > blank rows will be shown by default when the `changelist` is rendered. The > new attribute would be named `list_editable_extra`, as was proposed in the > ticket description. This attribute will be used basically to set as > `extra` > value in ModelAdmin.get_changelist_formset > > <https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/admin/options.py#L689> > . > 2. As was described in the ticket; "Adapt the `result_list` template > tag in `admin_list.py` to show the extra forms. This can be done by > calling `items_for_result` with an empty model for each empty form". I > tested that suggestion and works good. > 3. Avoid to render the `checkbox` "action-select" for the blank rows > in the `changelist` action column, in order to avoid problems with > changelist's actions. > 4. Add functionality similar to `InlineModelAdmin`, in order to add or > to delete blank rows. > 5. Add tests for the solution, including `Selenium` tests. > 6. Add documentation about the new feature. > > I evaluated 2 possibilities to reach that, both possibilities with > different impact in the Django's code. > > - Render in the blank row as editable fields, only the `list_editable` > fields. With this solution we need to modify less code's lines to render > the blank rows. Is necessary to be clear in the documentation that this > feature only will be able if the `list_editable` has been set, and could > be > edited only the fields added to `list_editable` tuple. > - Render in the blank row as editable fields, all `list_display` > fields. With this solution we need to make more adjusts in order to render > the blank rows successfully. Is necessary to be clear in the documentation > that this feature only will be able if the `list_display` has been set, > and > could be edited this time only the fields added to `list_display` tuple. > > I know that there are some obstacles that I will go finding in the way to > reach this goal, but it's a simple resume of my idea. I'm open to better > ideas. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/e2fd9de0-1b75-4931-8d8c-4ac245e8cc28%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
