Django admin action as row button

README.md

Summary

This enables simple action buttons per entity in the admin list_view. This was adapted for Django 2.1 and is a bit more general than the original it was forked from.

Usage

Change your ModelAdmin according to the example and add user_admin.js to your static files.

admin.py

class MyAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    class Media:
        js = ('user_admin.js', )    
    
    def custom_action(self, request, queryset):
        print("custom action called")
    custom_cation.short_description = "Custom action"
    
    def actions_html(self, obj):
        return format_html(
            '<button class="btn" type="button" onclick="inline_action({action_name}{pk})">custom_action</button>', 
            action_name="custom_action", 
            pk=obj.pk
        )
    actions_html.short_description = "Actions"

    list_display = (..., 'actions_html', )
    actions = [..., 'custom_action', ]

user_admin.js

inline_action = function(action, pk) {
    const $ = django.jQuery;
    $('input[name="_selected_action"]').removeAttr('checked');
    $('input[name="_selected_action"][value="{}"]'.replace('{}', pk)).attr('checked', 'checked');
    $('select[name="action"]').val(action);
    $('button[type="submit"][name="index"]').click();
};