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 had a situation where I needed to show an Inline based on the admin site that you were on for a given story.

I was able to get dynamic inlines working for Django 1.3 using the following code:

In highlights/admin.py

class HighlightInline(generic.GenericTabularInline):
    model = Highlight
    extra = 1
    max_num = 4
    fields = ('order', 'highlight')
    template = 'admin/highlights/inline.html'

class HighlightAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    def regulate_highlight_inlines(self):
        highlights_enabled = Setting.objects.get_or_default('highlights_enabled', default='')
        highlight_inline_instance = HighlightInline(self.model, self.admin_site)
        highlight_found = any(isinstance(x, HighlightInline) for x in self.inline_instances)
        if highlights_enabled.strip().lower() == 'true':
            if not highlight_found:
                self.inline_instances.insert(0, highlight_inline_instance)
        else:
            if highlight_found:
                self.inline_instances.pop(0)
        print self.inline_instances

    def change_view(self, request, object_id, form_url='', extra_context=None):
        self.regulate_highlight_inlines()
        return super(HighlightAdmin, self).change_view(request, object_id)

    def add_view(self, request, form_url='', extra_context=None):
        self.regulate_highlight_inlines()   
        return super(HighlightAdmin, self).add_view(request, form_url, extra_context)

In story/admin.py

class StoryAdmin(HighlightAdmin):

One thing to note is that I'm not merely manipulating inline classes(HighlightInline) but rather, I'm changing inline instances(HighlightInline(self.model, self.admin_site)). This is because django has already constructed a list of inline instances based on a list of inline classes during the initial construction of the admin class.

Answer 2

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)