Allow bulk editing of event etc. publishers in admin

[Rikuoja]

Try out https://github.com/burke-software/django-mass-edit .

We probably don't want to allow mass editing text fields (unless there is a use case?), but at least publisher, location, event_status, publication_status, deleted and keywords might come in handy.

[Doatti]

I wasn't able to get it working. Trying to open the mass edit view causes an error:

TemplateSyntaxError
Invalid template name in 'extends' tag: ''. Got this from the 'base_site_template' variable.

This happens because the base_site_template context variable is set in each_context method in helusers custom admin site, but django-mass-edit isn't calling it. I think this could quite easily be fixed by forking django-mass-edit, but there might be some other problems.

[Doatti]

Ok, I got it working by forking django-mass-edit and adding the call to each_context(). I also needed to change the url config for mass edit views to allow colons (:) in object IDs.

@Rikuoja What do you think about the idea of adding a dependency to a fork of django-mass-edit? The change I made is simply adding one line, so merging updates from upstream shouldn't be a big problem if it is needed.

The fork can be found here https://github.com/Doatti/django-mass-edit

[Doatti]

I've made an issue and a PR to the django-mass-edit project. Here's a link to the issue burke-software/django-mass-edit#84

[Doatti]

@Rikuoja exactly which models and fields should be allowed for mass edit?

[Rikuoja]

Ah. I would add at least

-location
-publisher
-keywords
-audience

Does @aleksisalonen have any others in mind?

[Rikuoja]

Perhaps also

-super_event

[aleksisalonen]

Let's start with these:

publisher
provider
location
event_status (cancelled / suspended)
publication_status (draft / published)
deleted
keywords
audience
super_event
offers

[Doatti]

Thanks, and should we only enable mass editing for Event objects?

[Doatti]

Also include location_extra_info?

[Doatti]

Let's start with these:

publisher
provider
location
event_status (cancelled / suspended)
publication_status (draft / published)
deleted
keywords
audience
super_event
offers

offers is not a field on the Event object. It can't be edited in admin.