Django Custom Admin

Question

Hello there

Currently I have an app with a save method in its models.py . So I would like to change this so the models does not do the save() method, but rather have a separate view that will do this in die admin site.

Can you please direct me in the correct direction?

Thank you

Answer 1

Override save_model in your ModelAdmin class. The (bare) original is in django.contrib.admin.options.

Answer 2

This is currently what I have done in my admin.py file:

class QuoteBulkUploadAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('fields',)  

    def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change):
        contents = obj.fields
        new_content = []
        for line in contents.split('#'):
            #print line
            obj.name, obj.quote = line.split('<>')[0],line.split('<>')[1]
            #print obj.name + '*' + obj.quote
            # if IndexError:
            #   print 'Last correct line was: ' + obj.name + obj.quote
            # else:
            #slug = slugify('%s' % (obj.name))

            name = obj.name
            quote = obj.quote
            slug = slugify(name)
            s = Quotation(name=name, quote=quote, slug=slug)

It works except for the slugify part (it worked before in the models.py file when using self. not obj.)