Exclude fields in Django admin for users other than superuser

Question

I have a simple MyUser class with PermissionsMixin. user.is_superuser equals True only for superusers. I\'d like to be able t

Answer 1

Django now has a get_exclude method on ModelAdmin for excluding fields programmatically.

It takes the current request and the object (if any) as argument. You can put a check there on the request argument to see if they're a superuser and check

class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    def get_exclude(self, request, obj=None):
        excluded = super().get_exclude(request, obj) or [] # get overall excluded fields

        if not request.user.is_superuser: # if user is not a superuser
            return excluded + ['extra_field_to_exclude']

        return excluded # otherwise return the default excluded fields if any