Question

I have a django app with the following class in my admin.py:

class SoftwareVersionAdmin(ModelAdmin):
    fields = ("product", "version_number", "description",
      "media", "relative_url", "current_version")
    list_display = ["product", "version_number", "size",
      "current_version", "number_of_clients", "percent_of_clients"]
    list_display_links = ("version_number",)
    list_filter = ['product',]

I want to have these fileds for add page but different fields for change page. How can I do that?

Answer 1

First have a look at source of ModelAdmin class’ get_form and get_formsets methods located in django.contrib.admin.options.py. You can override those methods and use kwargs to get the behavior you want. For example:

class SoftwareVersionAdmin(ModelAdmin):
    def get_form(self, request, obj=None, **kwargs):
        # Proper kwargs are form, fields, exclude, formfield_callback
        if obj: # obj is not None, so this is a change page
            kwargs['exclude'] = ['foo', 'bar',]
        else: # obj is None, so this is an add page
            kwargs['fields'] = ['foo',]
        return super(SoftwareVersionAdmin, self).get_form(request, obj, **kwargs)