How to make a field non-editable in Flask Admin view of a model class

Question

I have a User model class and password is one attribute among many. I am using Flask web framework and Flask-Admin extension to create the admin view o

Answer 1

Yet another way to work the problem around is to use Flask-Admin ModelView method called on_form_prefill to set readonly property argument. According to Flask-Admin Docs:

on_form_prefill(form, id)

Perform additional actions to pre-fill the edit form.

Called from edit_view, if the current action is rendering the form rather than receiving client side input, after default pre-filling has been performed.

In other words, this is a trigger, which is run when opening only Edit form, not the Create one.

So, the solution for the example used above would be:

class UserView(ModelView):
    ...
    def on_form_prefill(self, form, id):
        form.name.render_kw = {'readonly': True}

The method is run after all other rules applied, so none of them are broken, including set of columns.