django-import-export

I am using django-import-export library and I am trying to implement ForeignKey widget which is available to lookup related objects using Author.name instead of Author.pk. Now, the here is the tricky part for the given calendar year I only have one author with the same name, however, next year the author name will be similar. When i try to import, of course, it brings the issue saying that more than Author.name was found. Is there a suggestion to solve the issue? I've used before_save_instance() to do something similar to this. Here's some pseudo-code for how this might work: class

This has been asked several times- but none of the solutions worked for me. The code below works (in that there are no errors) but it does not see anything to import new data to the foreign key class. It will only import data if it already exists in the foreign key. Does that make sense? Models.py (snippet) ... class Store(models.Model): store_name = models.CharField(max_length=30) def __unicode__(self): return self.store_name #etc class Product(models.Model): Store = models.ForeignKey(Store) Category = models.ForeignKey(Category) first_name = models.CharField(max_length=30) second_name =

I'm using the django-import-export library with success to provide a data download option via the django admin for some of my defined models. I'm having difficulty however providing the same export option via the User Admin. For my other models I've done something like the following to my admin.py : class OtherResource(resources.ModelResource): class Meta: model = Other class OtherAdmin(ExportMixin, admin.ModelAdmin): # Other admin definition here My problem is providing the same Export functionality to pre-packaged Django models like User . I tried the following... class UserResource

I'm using django-import-export to load csv files in a migration file which I understand is current best practise for Django 1.7 to load initial data. This worked fine for the first file: class Country(models.Model): ISO2 = models.CharField(max_length=2, primary_key=True) name = models.CharField(max_length=50, unique=True) and the entire migration file contents. note that ISO2 is the primary key so required the addition line import_id_fields = ['ISO2']. Code adapted from answer to this question: Loading initial data with Django 1.7 and data migrations : from django.conf import settings import

I am trying to implement a simple xls file import and save to a model using django-import-export. Unfortunately the docs only cover the admin integration. I am stuck here in my example code: class UploadFileForm(forms.Form): file = forms.FileField() class ExportSpec(resources.ModelResource): class Meta: model = Specialty view: def ca_import(request): if request.method == 'POST' and 'import_test' in request.POST: form = UploadFileForm(request.POST, request.FILES) if form.is_valid(): filehandle = request.FILES['file'] dataset = ??? result = ExportSpec().import_data(dataset, dry_run=False, raise