Add custom form fields that are not part of the model (Django)

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Either in your admin.py or in a separate forms.py you can add a ModelForm class and then declare your extra fields inside that as you normally would. I’ve also given an example of how you might use these values in form.save():

from django import forms
from yourapp.models import YourModel


class YourModelForm(forms.ModelForm):

    extra_field = forms.CharField()

    def save(self, commit=True):
        extra_field = self.cleaned_data.get('extra_field', None)
        # ...do something with extra_field here...
        return super(YourModelForm, self).save(commit=commit)

    class Meta:
        model = YourModel

To have the extra fields appearing in the admin just:

  1. Edit your admin.py and set the form property to refer to the form you created above.
  2. Include your new fields in your fields or fieldsets declaration.

Like this:

class YourModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    form = YourModelForm

    fieldsets = (
        (None, {
            'fields': ('name', 'description', 'extra_field',),
        }),
    )

UPDATE:

In Django 1.8 you need to add fields="__all__" to the metaclass of YourModelForm.

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