For the django admin, how do I add a field to the User model and have it editable in the admin?

Question

I\'m trying to understand the django admin better and at the same time, I\'m trying to add one more field to the current user admin. In models.py I\'ve done

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Answer 1

Just figured this out, perhaps this could help you as well.

Since you don't mention that you have a separate profile, if you want to simply add a column to the existing User admin, you can do the following in admin.py:

First you create a custom admin by subclassing UserAdmin:

class CustomUserAdmin(UserAdmin):
    list_display = UserAdmin.list_display + ('is_complete',)

    def is_complete(self, obj):
        # Example here, you can use any expression.
        return SomeOtherClass.objects.get(my_field=obj).is_complete()

    # Not required, but this gives you a nice boolean field:
    is_complete.boolean = True

Then unregister the existing UserAdmin and register your own:

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