Is there a way to get custom Django admin actions to appear on the “change” view in addition to the “change list” view?

Question

I thought for whatever reason this would be easy to do, but I looked deeper and it appears there is no straightforward way to allow users to execute custom admin actions on the

Answer 1

What I did was create my own MYAPP/templates/admin/MYMODEL/change_form.html template:

{% extends "admin/change_form.html" %}
{% load i18n %}
{% block object-tools %}
{% if change %}{% if not is_popup %}

    
MY COMMAND
  
{% trans "History" %}
  {% if has_absolute_url %}
{% trans "View on site" %}
{% endif%}
  
{% endif %}{% endif %}
{% endblock %}

So I basically only changed the block "object-tools" where the history-link and the "view on site"-link are. the rest of the original change_form.html remains untouched. BTW: "original.id" is the id of the model you are editing.