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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt index f684452e23..4c06a7575e 100644 --- a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt +++ b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt @@ -1488,16 +1488,20 @@ templates used by the :class:`ModelAdmin` views: Returns a :class:`~django.forms.ModelForm` class for use in the admin add and change views, see :meth:`add_view` and :meth:`change_view`. - If you wanted to hide a field from non-superusers, for example, you could - override ``get_form`` as follows:: + The base implementation uses :func:`~django.forms.models.modelform_factory` + to subclass :attr:`~form`, modified by attributes such as :attr:`~fields` + and :attr:`~exclude`. So, for example, if you wanted to offer additional + fields to superusers, you could swap in a different base form like so:: class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): def get_form(self, request, obj=None, **kwargs): - self.exclude = [] - if not request.user.is_superuser: - self.exclude.append('field_to_hide') + if request.user.is_superuser: + kwargs['form'] = MySuperuserForm return super(MyModelAdmin, self).get_form(request, obj, **kwargs) + You may also simply return a custom :class:`~django.forms.ModelForm` class + directly. + .. method:: ModelAdmin.get_formsets(request, obj=None) .. deprecated:: 1.7 |