I'm just starting out with Django and I've just revamped my project so that instead of using the base user, I use an AbstractUser model, as defined in my models.py folder
#accounts/models.py
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser
from django.db import models
class CustomUser(AbstractUser):
# add additional fields in here
favourite_colour = models.CharField("Favourite Colour", max_length=100)
def __str__(self):
return self.email
I've also created the creation forms that work well with my signup system
#accounts/forms.py
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm, UserChangeForm
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django import forms
from .models import CustomUser
class CustomUserCreationForm(UserCreationForm):
class Meta(UserCreationForm.Meta):
model = CustomUser
fields = ('username', 'email', 'favourite_colour')
help_texts = {
'username': 'Make something unique',
'email': None,
}
class CustomUserChangeForm(UserChangeForm):
class Meta:
model = CustomUser
fields = ('username', 'email', 'favourite_colour')
And now I am trying to edit the admin page so that I can change a users favourite_colour
attribute. So far I have this in my admin.py
file
#accounts/admin.py
from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin
from .forms import CustomUserCreationForm, CustomUserChangeForm
from .models import CustomUser
class CustomUserAdmin(UserAdmin):
add_form = CustomUserCreationForm
form = CustomUserChangeForm
model = CustomUser
list_display = ['username', 'email', 'favourite_colour']
admin.site.register(CustomUser, CustomUserAdmin)
Which shows me the favourite_colour
of each user
My question is, how do I make a field to edit this CustomUser
attribute once you've clicked on a user?, for example like this I'd welcome any help at all as I'm not too good at reading the docs. Please ask if you need more code adding to the question, I've never asked a Django question before
According to django documentation, you should create a custom user model whenver you start a django project. Because then you will have full control over the fields of the user objects in django, and you can add as many custom fields to the user model as you need and whenever you need.
After some more looking I found a fieldsets
option (link1, link2, link3) that can be used inside of my CustomUserAdmin
code. In my CustomUserAdmin
class I now have:
class CustomUserAdmin(UserAdmin):
add_form = CustomUserCreationForm
form = CustomUserChangeForm
model = CustomUser
list_display = ['username', 'email', 'favourite_colour']
fieldsets = UserAdmin.fieldsets + (
('Extra Fields', {'fields': ('favourite_colour',)}),
)
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