newbie needs to copy a record in admin to a new record

[frocco]

Hello,

I am just learning django and want to allow a user in admin to copy a record from the list to create a new record and make changes.

This will prevent having to type similar data.

How do I add a link to the admin list?

where do I put code to dup the record?

Thank you 

[Brad Pitcher]

I think what should work well for your use case is an admin action:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/contrib/admin/actions/

You can write code for a copy action in admin.py. This will add a "copy" item to the dropdown in the list view, so you can select any number of list items and copy them.

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[frocco]

Thank you

[code]

def make_copy(modeladmin, request, queryset):

    for obj in queryset:

        obj.pk = None

        obj.object_name = "dup"

        obj.save()

make_copy.short_description = "Copy selected records"

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