Link to object in message after creating/updating object in django admin

[anonymous]

When you have a lot of objects listed in the admin, like items in a shop, it is hard to find the object after you created/updated it. Obviously there is an option "Save and continue editing" but in practice it happens that after saving users suddenly realize there are not finished yet.

For example: If i clicked an item in app shop in the middle of the items list, or in search results, I have to find it manually or by using the search-on-page in the browser after saving the object. This problem can easily be solved by adding a link in the message to the object, which appears on top of the page after creating/updating. The title is already in there, so it should not be that hard to resolve the url to the admin page.

Example message: The item "Vintage Star Trek action figure" was changed successfully.
New message: The item "Vintage Star Trek action figure" was changed successfully.

Of course there are some cases, like when the change page ({{ app_label }}_{{ model_name }}_change) is not used or overriden or whatever the coder did to break the url structure and not using the correct names anymore.

[BozeWolf]

I forgot to login when posting this ticket. But i'm the reporter. I added myself to Cc.

[Anton Baklanov]

this will be usable

[Anton Baklanov]

some status update:

• a branch with quick implementation (not finished yet) ​admin-messages
• this is kind of depends on #19387. when (if) it will be merged into master we will be able to remove next hunk from diff (i don't like this safe filter there):

  --- a/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/base.html
  +++ b/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/base.html
  @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
       {% block messages %}
           {% if messages %}
           <ul class="messagelist">{% for message in messages %}
  -          <li{% if message.tags %} class="{{ message.tags }}"{% endif %}>{{ message }}</li>
  +          <li{% if message.tags %} class="{{ message.tags }}"{% endif %}>{{ message|safe }}</li>
           {% endfor %}</ul>
           {% endif %}
       {% endblock messages %}
  

[BozeWolf]

Good to see progress. Will test it as soon as it's finished.

[Anton Baklanov]

​pull request

[Anton Baklanov]

needs rebase

[Anton Baklanov]

patch is too old, will try to update it

[Anton Baklanov]

it's been a long time, but here goes rebased pull request ​https://github.com/django/django/pull/5244

[Tim Graham]

I left comments for improvement on the pull request.

[Tim Graham <timograham@…>]

In 80bcbecd:

Fixed #19361 -- Added link to object's change form in admin's post-save message.

Thanks Roel Kramer for tests.