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Discoveringmypath
Discoveringmypath

Reputation: 1077

Custom Django Admin Permissions for article Authors

I'm building a website that will include articles. Article content will be stored in a database model. Example:

class article(models.Model):
    author = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    date_posted = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)
    content = models.TextField()
    ...

I'm wanting to use the built-in admin app for adding new articles to the website. And I'm going to have a group called 'author' which will allow other people to log in to the admin section and add new content.

My issue is with the permissions. I want to give the 'author' group the permission to add, change, view and delete Articles. But I want to restrict this to only articles that they have created. Basically I don't want them to be able to update other author's posts.

Is there a way that I can give them custom permissions so that they only have the ability to change, view, and delete only their own posts?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 402

Answers (1)

Eliakin Costa
Eliakin Costa

Reputation: 960

You can use get_queryset for that.

class ArticleModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    def get_queryset(self, request):
        qs = super(ArticleModelAdmin, self).get_queryset(request)
        return qs.filter(author=request.user)

Don't forget to register your ModelAdmin.

admin.site.register(Article, ArticleModelAdmin)

Upvotes: 1

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