Question

I dont know why but the Django Admin App does not find the user field in the model. Can you help with that?

model.py:

from django.db import models
from django.forms import ModelForm
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class object(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=50, )
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, editable=False)
    in_use = models.BooleanField()

admin.py:

from project.models import *
from django.contrib import admin

class ObjectAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ['name', 'user', 'in_use']

Error message:

ImproperlyConfigured at /admin/

‘ObjectAdmin.fieldsets[3][1][‘fields’]’ refers to field ‘user’ that is missing from the form.

Answer 1

It’s probably because user is marked as editable=False. Try using readonly_fields and add user to that ModelAdmin option.