How to make a field non-editable in Flask Admin view of a model class
flask, flask-admin, python
Solution
You should extend your view from ModelView and overwrite the necessary fields.
In my class it looks like this:
class UserView(ModelView):
column_list = ('first_name', 'last_name', 'username', 'email')
searchable_columns = ('username', 'email')
# this is to exclude the password field from list_view:
excluded_list_columns = ['password']
can_create = True
can_delete = False
# If you want to make them not editable in form view: use this piece:
form_widget_args = {
'name': {
'readonly': True
},
}
Hope this helps! For more information check out the documentation:
- Flask-Admin Documentation
- Model View Documentation
Problem
I have a `User` model class and `password` is one attribute among many. I am using Flask web framework and Flask-Admin extension to create the admin view of my model classes. I want to make certain fields in the admin view like `password` non editable or not show them at all. How do I do it? I can make the fields not show up in the normal view but when I click on the edit button of any record in the table, all fields show up and are editable.