silentsokolov / django-admin-permissions

Very simple extension that adds a permissions check on the field in admin

django-admin-permissions

Very simple extension that adds a permissions check on the field in admin

Requirements

• Python 2.7+ or Python 3.3+
• Django 1.8+

Installation

Use your favorite Python package manager to install the app from PyPI, e.g.

Example:

pip install django-admin-permissions

Add admin_permissions to INSTALLED_APPS:

Example:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'admin_permissions',
    ...
)

Example usage

Use class FieldPermissionMixin and set permissions using fields_permissions:

from django.contrib import admin
from admin_permissions.admin import FieldPermissionMixin


class ArticleAdmin(FieldPermissionMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
    fieldsets = [
        ('General', {
            'fields': ['title', 'slug', 'text'],
        }),
        ('SEO', {
            'fields': ['seo_title', 'seo_description'],
        }),
    ]

    fields_permissions = {
        # 'permission': ('field',)
        'articles.can_change_admin_seo_fields': ('seo_title', 'seo_description'),
    }

# in articles/models.py:
class Article(models.Model):
    class Meta:
        permissions = (
            ('can_change_admin_seo_fields', _('Show SEO fields')),
        )

Then run makemigrations to add all the permissions in your database

Options

If you want the user to see the field, but could not edit them, set fields_permissions_read_only is True, default False.