Select multiple action checkboxes with shift+mouseclick in django admin (like in gmail)

[Yuri Baburov]

Solution is described here: ​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/659508/how-can-i-shift-select-multiple-checkboxes-like-gmail

It needs to be adopted into django admin's action_checkbox field and actions.js script.

I'll create a patch asap, or someone else might want to do this.

[Sean Brant]

This adds support for shift-clicking checkboxes to select items in a range

[Karen Tracey]

Noticed a couple of things playing with this on Ubuntu/Firefox. First, if I happen to hold down shift for the first thing I check, every item from there to the bottom gets selected. I found that surprising. Second the x of y objects selected isn't matching reality when a range is selected. It seems to be counting all the items selected via a shift-click as just one.

[Karen Tracey]

Tested with IE8 and Chrome on Windows also. Both also show the behavior of selecting every item to the bottom of the list if shift is held for the first click. Oddly, IE8 counts properly, always reporting how many items are actually selected. Chrome is behaving like Firefox and seeming to count only one item when a shift-click selects multiple.

[Jannis Leidel]

Maby combining the two events into one (Actions.counter() and checking for shift-clicking) might negate the the problems with the x of y objects.

[Sean Brant]

Fixes the x of y and the shift-click the first item issue

[Sean Brant]

this patch will automatically select/deselect the check all if you select all with shift-click

[Carl Meyer]

Works great for me in Firefox 3.0 on Ubuntu, and on WinXP VM: FF 3.5, Opera 10.10, Safari 3.0.3, Chrome 3.0.195.38, and IE 8.

[Jannis Leidel]

(In [12155]) Fixed #11697 - Allow shift clicking for selecting multiple action checkboxes in the admin changelist. Thanks buriy and Sean Brant.