Django 1.5 Creating multiple instances of model in ModelAdmin - django

Question

I'm kind of puzzled with this task:
I have 2 tables: User, Codes
I want to generate randomly codes in a specific pattern.
I've already written that part as a function, but it's hard to implement the function
in the ModelAdmin.
So I would be very pleased if someone knows a trick to accomplish this.
It would be enough to have a button in the User form to envoke the function, which then creates these codes.
But how do I implement such a button?
Is there a way to to this?
EDIT: typo
SOLUTION:
Since I want to generate vouchers for a particular user I can edit the admin.py like this:
class MyUserAdmin(UserAdmin):
def vouchers(self, obj):
return "<a href='%s'>Generate vouchers</a>" % reverse(gen_voucher_view, kwargs={'user':obj.pk,})
vouchers.allow_tags = True
list_display = (..., 'vouchers')
which represents a clickable link in the admin view of my User model.
Now I connect the link to my view in urls.py by adding
url(r'admin/gen_vouchers/(?P<user>\w+)/$', gen_voucher_view, name='gen_voucher_view')
to urlpatterns.
For creating the vouchers I provide a form in forms.py
class VoucherGeneratorForm(forms.Form):
user = forms.CharField(User, required=True, widget=forms.HiddenInput())
amount = forms.IntegerField(min_value=0, max_value=500, required=True)
readonly = ('user', )
In views.py I'm adding my view function:
#login_required
def gen_voucher_view(request, user):
if request.method == 'POST': # If the form has been submitted...
form = VoucherGeneratorForm(request.POST) # A form bound to the POST data
if form.is_valid(): # All validation rules pass
# GENERATE vouchers here by using form.cleaned_data['amount']
# and user (generate_vouchers is a self defined function)
vouchers = generate_vouchers(user, form.cleaned_data['amount']
# set error or info message
if len(vouchers) == form.cleaned_data['amount']:
messages.info(request, "Successfully generated %d voucher codes for %s" % (form.cleaned_data['amount'], user))
else:
messages.error(request, "Something went wrong")
u = User.objects.get(pk=user)
form = VoucherGeneratorForm(initial={'user':user}) # An unbound form
return render_to_response('admin/codes.html', {'request': request, 'user':user, 'form':form, 'userobj': u}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))
else:
form = VoucherGeneratorForm(initial={'user':user}) # An unbound form
Last but not least create a template admin/codes.html where my form is displayed:
{% extends "admin/base_site.html" %}
{% load i18n admin_static static %}
{% block breadcrumbs %}
<div class="breadcrumbs">
{% trans 'Home' %}
›
{% trans 'Users' %}
›
{% trans 'Vouchercodes' %}
›
Voucher Generator
</div>
{% endblock %}
{% block extrastyle %}{{ block.super }}<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static "admin/css/dashboard.css" %}" />{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
<div id="content-main">
{% if request.user.is_active and request.user.is_staff or userobj and userobj.is_active and userobj.is_staff %}
<h1 id="generator_title">Generate vouchers for {{user}}</h1>
<form id="formular_generator" action="" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
{% csrf_token %}
<table>{{ form }}</table>
<button id="generatebutton" type="submit" name="action" value="generate">Generate</input>
</form>
{% else %}
<p>{% trans "You don't have permission to access this site." %}</p>
</div>
{% endif %}
{% endblock %}
{% block sidebar %}
{% endblock %}
Done!
To export them in a pdf I used admin actions, as propsed by Sumeet Dhariwal below.

Answer 1

U mean that you need to run a script from within the admin ?
If so check out django-admin-tools
http://django-admin-tools.readthedocs.org/en/latest/dashboard.html

Answer 2

SOLUTION FOUND:
no that was not what i meant, because I want to generate vouchers for 1 particular user and not for more, but that's a good remark.