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    <p>I'm trying to understand the django admin better and at the same time, I'm trying to add one more field to the current user admin. In models.py I've done</p> <pre><code>User.add_to_class('new_field', models.BooleanField(default=False)) </code></pre> <p>and in admin.py I've got the following (with fieldsets basically just copied from django/contrib/auth/admin.py)</p> <pre><code>class AdjUserAdmin(UserAdmin): list_display = UserAdmin.list_display + ('new_field',) list_filter = UserAdmin.list_filter + ('new_field',) fieldsets = UserAdmin.fieldsets fieldsets[1][1]['fields'] = ('first_name','last_name','email','new_field') </code></pre> <p>The problem is, when I do this I get the error:</p> <p><strong><code>AdjUserAdmin.fieldsets[4][1]['fields']' refers to field 'new_field' that is missing from the form.</code></strong></p> <p>I've looked at UserChangeForm, but it looks like it's already correctly pulling in User as the model. I'm not sure as to why <code>new_field</code> is missing from the form.</p> <p>Thanks</p> <p><strong>In regards to this being smelly code</strong></p> <p>I know this is a smelly monkey patching way to go about doing this, but subclassing gives me issues mainly for <a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2007/feb/20/about-model-subclassing/" rel="noreferrer">these</a> reasons.. if I could get it to work the way stated above, I'd be happy.. and maybe smelly.</p> <p><strong>In regards to the recommended way</strong></p> <p>I'm aware of the recommended way of creating a user profile, just that in particular situations, I don't see the merit in creating an entire new table and having an additional call to the database when all I want to store is an extra bit of information such as <code>is_private</code> or some such. If I'm storing lots more info, then I agree, setting up a user profile is preferable.</p>
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