How to limit fields in django-admin depending on user?

Question

I suppose similar problem would have been discussed here, but I couldn\'t find it.

Let\'s suppose I have an Editor and a Supervisor. I want the Editor to be able to

Answer 1

Starting Django 1.7, you can now use the get_fields hook which makes it so much simpler to implement conditional fields.

class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    ...

    def get_fields(self, request, obj=None):
        fields = super(MyModelAdmin, self).get_fields(request, obj)
        if request.user.is_superuser:
            fields += ('approve',)

        return fields