From Stanislaw Adaszewski's blog. I've fixed bugs and made changes to make it a production friendly drop-in Django app for bulk changes in Django's admin interface.

Check off what you want to edit in list view then choose mass edit from the actions menu. Image was taken using Grappelli

Features

• Drop in app, works with all models in admin
• Doesn't allow users to edit unique and read only fields
• Attempts to detect and show users errors
• Database transactions ensure either all or no objects are changed

Not implemented

• No support for inlines. Original had this. I commented it out because I felt it was very buggy.
• Validation errors do not show up by the field they should

Installation

1. pip install django-mass-edit
2. In settings.py, add massadmin to INSTALLED_APPS
3. Add path(r'admin/', include('massadmin.urls')), to urls.py before admin.site.urls line

Optional

You may exclude some fields like this:

```python
class PollAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    massadmin_exclude = ['user', ]
```

You can also add or remove the "action" to models if you don't want it global. See Django Docs on the subject

Custom AdminSite

Django allows [customization of AdminSites](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/contrib/admin/#customizing-adminsite)
If you want to work with a custom AdminSite by passing the custom site to the view (it is also necessary to add the `mass_change_selected` action to the custom site):

    ```python
    from massadmin import mass_change_selected

    admin_site = MyCustomAdminSite(name='custom_admin')
    admin_site.add_action(mass_change_selected)

    url(r'^admin/', include(massadmin.urls), kwargs={'admin_site': admin_site}),
    ```

Settings

Enable Mass Edit for specific models

By default, all models registered in the admin will get Mass Edit action.

If you wish to disable this, add this to settings file:

MASSEDIT = {
    'ADD_ACTION_GLOBALLY': False,
}

Then, to add the mass edit action to specific models, use the provided mixin:

from massedit.massedit import MassEditMixin

class MyModelAdmin(MassEditMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
    ...

Session-based URLs

Django-mass-edit will keep IDs for selected objects in URL, e.g:

/admin/myapp/mymodel-masschange/1,2,3,4,5/

To avoid problems with too long URL when editing large number of objects, the list of objects will be stored in session and the URL will look like this:

/admin/myapp/mymodel-masschange/session-c81e728d9d4c2f636f067f89cc14862c/

(same length regardless of the number of selected objects).

The default threshold is 500 characters for the IDs in the URL, not counting anything before or after the the IDs.

This threshold can be changed in settings:

MASSEDIT = {
    'SESSION_BASED_URL_THRESHOLD': 10,
}

To always use the session-based URLs, simply put in value 0.

Hacking and pull requests

This project could use some love. It has few unit test and old code that could be refactored. When you make a pull request - please include a unit test. If you want to take on improving the project let me know by opening an issue.

New maintainers welcome. I (bufke) will only be providing minimal support to keep the project running on modern versions of Django. Open an issue if you are interested.