Question

I have a Django application where users have additional data. That data is collected in a Profile model with a OneToOneField pointing to User.

This is fine and works perfectly for most purposes, but I have trouble customizing the admin for User. In particular:

• I would like to be able to show a Profile field inside list_display. I don’t know how to do this without writing an additional method on User itself.
• I would like to be able to show some information about related models (e.g. some resources owned by the user) inside the User detail page. Again, I do not know how to do this without writing a custom User method.

Do you know any solution to the above?

Answer 1

Turns out, one can put the methods in the UserAdmin itself instead than in the User model. This way I can access all the information I need about the user.