models.filefield, linking same file to two objects

[eyalyakir159]

hello everyone,

my website has course model, that contain sections that contain lectures. and each lecture has a video - file.
when I upload a file from the admin panel it gets uploded to an web s3 bucket and the url is saved.

now I want two diffrent lectures to have the same video, how can I do this? how can I give an option at the admin pannel to choose an exitsing upload?

thanks

[KenWhitesell]

My first thought on this is that to do this from the Django admin, you’ll probably need to create a custom admin form for that model. You can add a checkbox to indicate that the model is supposed to copy the field from another instance, and a drop-down select box to select the instance to copy.

Then, you would likely be able to check the checkbox and copy the field in the clean method for that form.

[eyalyakir159]

How can I do it?
say i create a template with buttons and everything, how can I allow only admins to login? can i keep the currect admin “authorization”?)

[KenWhitesell]

See ModelAdmin.form

[eyalyakir159]

hey, I ended up making a brand new admin pannel, now I have a div where i want to insert the old menu, for example i want to add this section into a div, how can i do it?

or add some of the contect, for example the first checkbox and the second one.

thanks!