How to add button next to Add User button in Django Admin Site

Question

I am working on Django Project where I need to extract the list of user to excel from the Django Admin's Users Screen. I added actions variable to my Sample Class for getting the CheckBox before each user's id.

class SampleClass(admin.ModelAdmin):     actions =[make_published] 

Action make_published is already defined. Now I want to append another button next to Add user button as shown in fig. . But I dont know how can I achieve this this with out using new template. I want to use that button for printing selected user data to excel. Thanks, please guide me.

Answer 1

1. Create a template in you template folder: admin/YOUR_APP/YOUR_MODEL/change_list.html

2. Put this into that template

   {% extends "admin/change_list.html" %} {% block object-tools-items %}      {{ block.super }}      <li>         <a href="export/" class="grp-state-focus addlink">Export</a>     </li>  {% endblock %} 

3. Create a view function in YOUR_APP/admin.py and secure it with annotation

   from django.contrib.admin.views.decorators import staff_member_required  @staff_member_required def export(self, request):      ... do your stuff ...      return HttpResponseRedirect(request.META["HTTP_REFERER"]) 

4. Add new url into YOUR_APP/admin.py to url config for admin model

   from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url  class YOUR_MODELAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):      ... list def stuff ...      def get_urls(self):         urls = super(MenuOrderAdmin, self).get_urls()         my_urls = patterns("",             url(r"^export/$", export)         )         return my_urls + urls 

Enjoy ;)