Django admin site: prevent fields from being edited?

Question

Hello, is it possible to prevent certain fields to be edited after they've been saved? They should be editable when the user creates a new item of a certain model but then when they try to open them to edit certain fields are 'blocked'.

thanks

Answer 1

You could override your ModelAdmin's get_readonly_fields to set certain fields readonly:

class MyAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    def get_readonly_fields(self, request, obj=None):
        if obj: # when editing an object
            return ['field1']
        return self.readonly_fields