Requesting new feature for Django Admin Panel

[Mohit Gupta]

Hello, 

I'm Mohit Gupta. 3rd year engineering student. I just have a suggestion/idea which if implemented in Django it will be very helpful. 

As I have faced difficulty in exporting Django admin model data to CSV. 

I know there is a CLI-based command to export data into a json file format 

"python manage.py dumpdata application_name --indent=1 > file.json". But I think it will be a bit difficult for users to remember this command and one loophole in this command is that it will pick all model data into a single file and it will be hectic to get the particular model data. 

So my idea is if there is a button in the admin panel to export particular model data to a CSV file and download it, it will be very helpful for developers to analyze data from a CSV file rather than finding data of a particular model instance form a json file. This feature will also help data science enthusiasts, as they need CSV file for training-testing purposes.

Thank you, 

Mohit Gupta

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohit-gupta-114711178/

[Adam Johnson]

The packages Django-import-export provides such functionality in a fairly robust manner. Try that. I don’t see a reason to merge too much functionality into the core Django admin, as it will become a maintenance burden.

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