Create a Django Admin Action to Duplicate a Record

Question

I want to create a Django Admin Action that allows me to create a duplicate of a record.

Heres the use case.

Admin clicks the checkbox next to a record in an

Answer 1

You have the right idea but you need to iterate through the queryset then duplicate each object.

def duplicate_event(modeladmin, request, queryset):
    for object in queryset:
        object.id = None
        object.save()
duplicate_event.short_description = "Duplicate selected record"

Answer 2

Maybe this work to for you.

def duplicate_query_sets(queryset, **kwargs):
    for p in queryset:
        p.pk = None
        for i, v in kwargs.iteritems():
            setattr(p, i, v)

        p.save()