Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

Last modified 12 years ago

#10734 closed (fixed)

Admin actions: use SortedDict instead of dict for predictable actions order

Reported by: Mikhail Korobov Owned by: nobody
Component: contrib.admin Version: dev
Severity: Keywords:
Cc: kmike84@… Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

I think the ability to define order of actions is a nice usability feature. The order of admin actions in drop-down menu now depends on internal python dict representation. If in get_actions function we use

actions = SortedDict()

instead of

actions = {}

actions wil have fixed order: the ones defined first will come on the top of the list. For example, if we define some custom actions using

actions=['action1', 'action2']

action1 will be before action2 in drop-down. For reverse order we will be able to write

actions=['action2', 'action1'].

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actions-sorted.diff (974 bytes ) - added by Alex Gaynor 15 years ago.

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Change History (4)

comment:1 by Alex Gaynor, 15 years ago

milestone: 1.1
Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

by Alex Gaynor, 15 years ago

Attachment: actions-sorted.diff added

comment:2 by Jacob, 15 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

(In [10408]) Made a bunch of improvements to admin actions. Be warned: this includes one minor but BACKWARDS-INCOMPATIBLE change.

These changes are:

  • BACKWARDS-INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: action functions and action methods now share the same signature: (modeladmin, request, queryset). Actions defined as methods stay the same, but if you've defined an action as a standalone function you'll now need to add that first modeladmin argument.
  • The delete selected action is now a standalone function registered site-wide; this makes disabling it easy.
  • Fixed #10596: there are now official, documented AdminSite APIs for dealing with actions, including a method to disable global actions. You can still re-enable globally-disabled actions on a case-by-case basis.
  • Fixed #10595: you can now disable actions for a particular ModelAdmin by setting actions to None.
  • Fixed #10734: actions are now sorted (by name).
  • Fixed #10618: the action is now taken from the form whose "submit" button you clicked, not arbitrarily the last form on the page.
  • All of the above is documented and tested.

comment:3 by Jacob, 12 years ago

milestone: 1.1

Milestone 1.1 deleted

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