how to ONLY export what I want?

[monalisir]

Thanks for this app.
I'm using it to export data from django admin.
But I face a problem, how to ONLY export the data after filtering.
Just like there are 30000 records in the DB table, after filtering, I get 200 records. How to ONLY export these 200 records?
I do not want to export them all.

Thank you.

[pokken-magic]

Iirc export can accept a queryset.

There’s no great way to do that in admin I am aware of but you can write a management command to run resource.export(queryset) basically. Make an instance of the resource and run export with the queryset as an arg. Can also be done via shell if it’s ad hoc.

There may be a way I am not thinking of too. You could certainly enhance the admin templates to let you specify a range of ids or something if it needed to be in a ui

[matthewhegarty]

I had a look at the API and concluded that it wasn't straightforward to override and specify filters for an export. This could be a useful addition.

[merwok]

Isn’t that what ExportActionModelAdmin (and subclasses) are for? They let you use admin filters, date filters, search and manual check/uncheck of rows to select, then choose the export action from bulk actions menu and export the selection.

[Yodale1000]

Isn’t that what ExportActionModelAdmin (and subclasses) are for? They let you use admin filters, date filters, search and manual check/uncheck of rows to select, then choose the export action from bulk actions menu and export the selection.

How do i implement it that way ?

[merwok]

See https://django-import-export.readthedocs.io/en/stable/getting_started.html#exporting-via-admin-action

[matthewhegarty]

#1477 related question

[matthewhegarty]

Closing due to inactivity