[Answered ]-Deleting multiple rows using checkbox in Django frontend

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Okay, let’s go through this step by step.

1) You want the Agent_Delete function to receive data from the frontend (a list of IDs for the objects to be deleted). So you need to register the function with a url in urls.py (I am assuming you have done this already).

This should something like the following in urls.py: 

from .views import *

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^delete_agent/$', Agent_Delete),
... #Along with other urls
]

2) From the front-end you want to POST the data to the view you have created above. To POST data you need a form. So, encapsulate the table in a form. It should look something like: 

<form action="{% url 'delete_agent'%}" method="POST">
{% csrf_token %} <- You will need to pass this token

<!--Table with checkboxes goes here-->
...

</form>

Now, you have a form which will try to POST the input to a particular URL which is mapped to a view. Let’s handle the view. 

@csrf_exempt #Add this too. 
def Agent_Delete(request, id=None):

    if request.method == 'POST': #<- Checking for method type
        id_list = request.POST.getlist('instance')
    #This will submit an array of the value attributes of all the                
    #checkboxes that have been checked, that is an array of {{obj.id}}

        # Now all that is left is to iterate over the array fetch the   
        #object with the ID and delete it. 

        for agent_id in id_list:
            Agent.objects.get(id=agent_id).delete()
👤chatuur

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