How to show different inlines depending of current object field value

Question

Given a model named MainModel and a RelatedModel, where the later has a ForeignKey field to MainModel:

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Answer 1

I realize this question's a bit old and the codebase has changed a bit; there's a cleanish point to override things at now: get_inline_instances. You can do this:

class MainModelAdmin(models.ModelAdmin):
    inlines = [RelatedModel1InlineAdmin,RelatedModel2InlineAdmin]

    def get_inline_instances(self, request, obj=None):
        #Return no inlines when obj is being created
        if not obj:
            return []
        unfiltered = super(MainModelAdmin, self).get_inline_instances(request, obj)
        #filter out the Inlines you don't want
        if obj.type:
            return [x for x in unfiltered if isinstance(x,RelatedModel1InlineAdmin)]
        else:
            return [x for x in unfiltered if isinstance(x,RelatedModel2InlineAdmin)]