Bulk Edit for Newly Imported Items

[NavyWings]

NetBox version

v3.2.2

Feature type

Change to existing functionality

Proposed functionality

After bulk importing of items (Devices in this particular example), the "Import Completed" page is displayed with a list of items imported. I propose adding a "Bulk Edit" option similar to most lists of objects in Netbox.

Use case

Imports may or may not require corrections following import. After import, there may not be a unique way of selecting the new objects that were imported if edits need to be made. By having a bulk edit feature available on the "Import Completed" page, it would easily allow edits to be made to the newly imported objects.

Database changes

Likely no new DB changes

External dependencies

None

[jeremystretch]

I think the ideal approach here would be to ditch the static rendering of imported objects, and replace it with a redirect to the normal objects list that's been filtered to display only the newly-imported items. (This would automatically include bulk edit & delete functions.) I'm just not sure how to best do that short of appending a ton of ?id=101&id=102&id=103 cruft. Will have to think about this some more.

[DanSheps]

@jeremystretch Any chance you could do something with the changelog id?

[jeremystretch]

@DanSheps Possibly, but it probably wouldn't be very efficient. We'd probably also be risking a race condition since the creation of change records is queued. This isn't true today, but could be in the future.

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[jeremystretch]

I've opened #11494 to test out Dan's idea above. Marking this as blocked for now, but the approach seems very promising.