Admin Actions: No Way to Select All

[Paul Smith]

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".

[Alex Gaynor]

This is related to #10615.

[Paul Smith]

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

[Martin Mahner]

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.

[Martin Mahner]

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.

[Jannis Leidel]

Working example, from ​http://github.com/jezdez/django/tree/admin-selectacross

[Jannis Leidel]

Current version

[Jannis Leidel]

Featuring less brain farts

[Jannis Leidel]

Even better now. Only needs through testing with the usual suspects (IE etc)

[Jannis Leidel]

Correction, the latest updates are here: ​http://github.com/jezdez/django/tree/admin-ui-combined

[Jannis Leidel]

(In [12298]) Fixed #12282 - When paginated allow selecting all items in the admin changlist.

Thanks to Martin Mahner, Rob Hudson and Zain Memon for providing inital patches and guidance.

[Jacob]

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