Question

How to make a field in Django Admin readonly or non-editable based on the value from another field?
I have used readonly_fields=('amount',) but this wont fix my problem , as I need to manage it based on another field .

Answer 1

You can override the admin’s get_readonly_fields method:

class MyAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    def get_readonly_fields(self, request, obj=None):
        if obj and obj.another_field == 'cant_change_amount':
            return self.readonly_fields + ('amount',)
        return self.readonly_fields