#12282 closed (fixed)
Admin Actions: No Way to Select All
| Reported by: | Paul Smith | Owned by: | Jannis Leidel |
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| Component: | contrib.admin | Version: | dev |
| Severity: | Keywords: | admin actions change-list | |
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Accepted | |
| Has patch: | yes | Needs documentation: | yes |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
Admin actions are only performed on items that have been selected in the change list. Users can only perform actions on items that actually appear on the page - items that do not appear in the list because of pagination can't be selected for actions. The Admin does a useful sanity check, and does not put a "Show all" link on the change list when the number of items is above a sane threshold (defined by MAX_SHOW_ALL_ALLOWED, which defaults to 200).
Filters help, and it's possible to raise the MAX_SHOW_ALL_ALLOWED value, but it's still a common - and valid - case that the user may want to perform an action on a set of items larger than a practical MAX_SHOW_ALL_ALLOWED value. And it's tedious to go through multiple pages of items performing actions on each page.
I propose adding something like what happens in GMail. When you've selected all the items on a page, a new link appears that says, "All 50 items on this page are selected. <link>Select all</link> 439 items in Whatever".
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Change History (14)
comment:1 by , 15 years ago
| Component: | Contrib apps → django.contrib.admin |
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comment:2 by , 15 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:3 by , 15 years ago
This should:
- List the number of items selected on this page (merge in work from #10625)
- Allow user to select all items (across pagination)
- Paginator should respect "select all" so that all items are still selected when you go to the next page
- When Go is pressed, action should be applied to all items that match currently applied filters
comment:4 by , 15 years ago
I worked on this while fixing #10615. I have a working solution which has some edge bugs and needs proper testing. Attached is a screenshot.
by , 15 years ago
| Attachment: | select-all.png added |
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comment:5 by , 15 years ago
blinkylights; any problems when I reassign the ticket to me? I don't know what your work status is on this, my current patch is available on http://github.com/bartTC/django/tree/tickets/10615-acrosspages. Maybe it's worth to share ideas.
by , 15 years ago
| Attachment: | admin-selectacross.diff added |
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Working example, from http://github.com/jezdez/django/tree/admin-selectacross
by , 15 years ago
| Attachment: | admin-selectacross.3.diff added |
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Even better now. Only needs through testing with the usual suspects (IE etc)
comment:6 by , 15 years ago
| Has patch: | set |
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| milestone: | → 1.2 |
| Needs documentation: | set |
| Owner: | changed from to |
| Status: | assigned → new |
| Triage Stage: | Unreviewed → Accepted |
| Version: | 1.1 → SVN |
comment:7 by , 15 years ago
Correction, the latest updates are here: http://github.com/jezdez/django/tree/admin-ui-combined
comment:8 by , 15 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
This is related to #10615.