Exclude fields in Django admin for users other than superuser

Question

I have a simple MyUser class with PermissionsMixin. user.is_superuser equals True only for superusers. I\'d like to be able t

Answer 1

Accepted answer is close but as others point out, get_form is called multiple times on the same instance of the Admin model and the instance is reused, so you can end up with fields repeated or other users seeing the fields after self.fields is modified. Try this out in Django <=1.6:

class MyAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    normaluser_fields = ['field1','field2']
    superuser_fields = ['special_field1','special_field2']

    def get_form(self, request, obj=None, **kwargs):
        if request.user.is_superuser:
            self.fields = self.normaluser_fields + self.superuser_fields
        else:
            self.fields = self.normaluser_fields

        return super(MyAdmin, self).get_form(request, obj, **kwargs)

Looks like, Django 1.7 introduces a get_fields() method you can override which is a much nicer approach:

https://github.com/django/django/blob/d450af8a2687ca2e90a8790eb567f9a25ebce85b/django/contrib/admin/options.py#L276