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 of my model classes. I want to make certain fields in the admin view like password non editable or not show them at all. How do I do it?

I can make the fields not show up in the normal view but when I click on the edit button of any record in the table, all fields show up and are editable.

Answer 1

You should extend your view from ModelView and overwrite the necessary fields.

In my class it looks like this:

class UserView(ModelView):

    column_list = ('first_name', 'last_name', 'username', 'email')
    searchable_columns = ('username', 'email')
# this is to exclude the password field from list_view:
    excluded_list_columns = ['password']
    can_create = True
    can_delete = False
# If you want to make them not editable in form view: use this piece:
    form_widget_args = {
        'name': {
            'readonly': True
        },
    }

Hope this helps! For more information check out the documentation:

• Flask-Admin Documentation
• Model View Documentation