Disable link to edit object in django's admin (display list only)?

Question

In Django\'s admin, I want disable the links provided on the \"select item to change\" page so that users cannot go anywhere to edit the item. (I am going to limit

Answer 1

You could also be ridiculously hacky about it (if you didn't want to fuss with overriding init) and provide a value for the first element that basically looks like this:

My non-linked value

I know, I know, not very pretty, but perhaps less anxiety about breaking something elsewhere since all we're doing is changing markup.

Here's some sample code about how this works:

class HitAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('user_no_link','ip','user_agent','hitcount')

    def user_no_link(self, obj):
        return u'%s' % obj
    user_no_link.allow_tags = True
    user_no_link.short_description = "user"

Side Note: You could also improve the readability of the output (since you don't want it to be a link) by returning return u'%s' % obj.get_full_name() which might be kinda neat depending on your use case.