Even though a field is marked as 'editable=False' in the model, I would like the admin page to display it. Currently it hides the field altogether.. How can this be achieved ?
Even though a field is marked as 'editable=False' in the model, I would like the admin page to display it. Currently it hides the field altogether.. How can this be achieved ?
Your read-only fields must be in fields also:
fields = ['title', 'author', 'content', 'published_date', 'updated_date', 'created_date']
readonly_fields = ('published_date', 'updated_date', 'created_date')
You could also set the readonly fields as editable=False in the model (django doc reference for editable here). And then in the Admin overriding the get_readonly_fields method.
# models.py
class MyModel(models.Model):
first = models.CharField(max_length=255, editable=False)
# admin.py
class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
def get_readonly_fields(self, request, obj=None):
return [f.name for f in obj._meta.fields if not f.editable]
With the above solution I was able to display hidden fields for several objects but got an exception when trying to add a new object.
So I enhanced it like follows:
class HiddenFieldsAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
def get_readonly_fields(self, request, obj=None):
try:
return [f.name for f in obj._meta.fields if not f.editable]
except:
# if a new object is to be created the try clause will fail due to missing _meta.fields
return ""
And in the corresponding admin.py file I just had to import the new class and add it whenever registering a new model class
from django.contrib import admin
from .models import Example, HiddenFieldsAdmin
admin.site.register(Example, HiddenFieldsAdmin)
Now I can use it on every class with non-editable fields and so far I saw no unwanted side effects.
You can try this
@admin.register(AgentLinks)
class AgentLinksAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
readonly_fields = ('link', )