Making inlines conditional in the Django admin

Question

I have a model that I want staff to be able to edit up to the date for the event. Like this:

class ThingAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    model = Thing

    if obj.da         


        

Answer 1

I think the easiest way to hack this is to call your custom funciton in get_fields, or get_fieldsets and so on, just set self.inlines in a custom function.

class XXXAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    def set_inlines(self, request, obj):
        """ hack inlines models according current request.user or obj """
        self.inlines = []
        if request.user.is_superuser or request.user is obj.recorder:
            self.inlines = [AbcInline, ]

    def get_fields(self, request, obj=None):
        self.set_inlines(request, obj)  # NOTICE this line
        super(XXXAdmin, self).get_fields(request, obj)