Django admin choice field

Question

I have a model that has a CharField and in the admin I want to add choices to the widget. The reason for this is I\'m using a proxy model and there are a bunch of models tha

Answer 1

You can override formfield_for_choice_field() that way you don't need to create a new form.

class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    def formfield_for_choice_field(self, db_field, request, **kwargs):
        if db_field.name == 'status':
            kwargs['choices'] = (
                ('accepted', 'Accepted'),
                ('denied', 'Denied'),
            )
            if request.user.is_superuser:
                kwargs['choices'] += (('ready', 'Ready for deployment'),)
        return super().formfield_for_choice_field(db_field, request, **kwargs)

See formfield_for_choice_field