Customizing an Admin form in Django while also using autodiscover

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S.Lott picture S.Lott · Jan 23, 2009 · Viewed 13.7k times · Source

I want to modify a few tiny details of Django's built-in django.contrib.auth module. Specifically, I want a different form that makes username an email field (and email an alternate email address. (I'd rather not modify auth any more than necessary -- a simple form change seems to be all that's needed.)

When I use autodiscover with a customized ModelAdmin for auth I wind up conflicting with auth's own admin interface and get an "already registered" error.

It looks like I have to create my own admin site, enumerating all of my Models. It's only 18 classes, but it seems like a DRY problem -- every change requires both adding to the Model and adding to the customized admin site.

Or, should I write my own version of "autodiscover with exclusions" to essentially import all the admin modules except auth?

Answer

Carl Meyer picture Carl Meyer · Jan 23, 2009

None of the above. Just use admin.site.unregister(). Here's how I recently added filtering Users on is_active in the admin (n.b. is_active filtering is now on the User model by default in Django core; still works here as an example), all DRY as can be:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class MyUserAdmin(UserAdmin):
    list_filter = UserAdmin.list_filter + ('is_active',)

admin.site.unregister(User)
admin.site.register(User, MyUserAdmin)

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