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

Starting Django 1.7 you can replace the base class of your model admin with something like:

class SuperuserAwareModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    superuser_fields = None
    superuser_fieldsets = None

    def get_fieldsets(self, request, obj = None):
        if request.user.is_superuser and self.superuser_fieldsets:
            return (self.fieldsets or tuple()) + self.superuser_fieldsets
        return super(SuperuserAwareModelAdmin, self).get_fieldsets(request, obj)

    def get_fields(self, request, obj = None):
        if request.user.is_superuser and self.superuser_fields:
            return (self.fields or tuple()) + self.superuser_fields
        return super(SuperuserAwareModelAdmin, self).get_fields(request, obj)

Example:

class MyModelAdmin(SuperuserAwareModelAdmin):
    superuser_fieldsets = (
        (_('Permissions'), {'fields': ('is_staff', )}),
    )

The SuperuserAwareModelAdmin base class can also be created as a mixin.