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brain storm
brain storm

Reputation: 31252

why does "Add User" on admin does not show all the fields in admin to add new user in Django?

This is how my admin look now. enter image description here

when I click the Add User on the right side, I get a form which does not have first name, Last name and Email address fields. but only username and password, as below enter image description here

I am using Django-registration to register new users. I have attached UserProfile to User. The UserProfile has only two fields, Photo and isPublic?

how can I get my admin to include all fields (such as First name, last name, email address) in the admin form.

EDIT: Traceback here

ValueError at /admin/auth/user/add/
too many values to unpack
Request Method: GET
Request URL:    http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/auth/user/add/
Django Version: 1.6.2
Exception Type: ValueError
Exception Value:    
too many values to unpack
Exception Location: /Users/Documents/virtualenvs/django/django/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/util.py in flatten_fieldsets, line 90
Python Executable:  /Users/Documents/virtualenvs/django/django/bin/python
Python Version:

Upvotes: 1

Views: 552

Answers (1)

sk1p
sk1p

Reputation: 6735

The UserAdmin of django.contrib.auth specifically overrides the form used for adding a new User. It differs from the change form because it needs to ask twice for the password.

If you look at the source code for UserAdmin, you'll see that you can set your own creation form by setting the add_form option. It should inherit from the original UserCreationForm to keep the password setting logic. For example:

class MyUserCreationForm(UserCreationForm):
    class Meta(UserCreationForm.Meta):
        fields = ('username', 'first_name', 'last_name')  # etc...

class MyUserAdmin(UserAdmin):
    add_form = MyUserCreationForm
    add_fieldsets = UserAdmin.add_fieldsets + ("More fields", {"fields": ('first_name', 'last_name')},)

# don't forget to register your custom admin class
admin.site.unregister(UserAdmin)
admin.site.register(User, MyUserAdmin)

Upvotes: 1

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