[Solved] How to disable the the Delete button

[Mike Dewhirst]

(I hate my email formatting) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I asked too soon. Sorry. There is a method in contrib.admin.options.BaseModelAdmin called ... def has_delete_permission(self, request, obj=None): """ Returns True if the given request has permission to change the given Django model instance, the default implementation doesn't examine the `obj` parameter. Can be overridden by the user in subclasses. In such case it should return True if the given request has permission to delete the `obj` model instance. If `obj` is None, this should return True if the given request has permission to delete *any* object of the given type. """ opts = self.opts codename = get_permission_codename('delete', opts) return request.user.has_perm("%s.%s" % (opts.app_label, codename))   So I made a callable ... def see_delete(self, request, obj=None): from django.contrib.auth import get_permission_codename opts = self.opts codename = get_permission_codename('delete', opts) see = request.user.has_perm("%s.%s" % (opts.app_label, codename)) if obj: if obj.company == get_user_company(request.user): return see and True else: return False return see In myModelAdmin I put ...  has_delete_permission = see_delete_button And it works nicely :)  Open source is lovely and Django (and the Admin) is brilliant. I'm guessing showing the button disabled would be a CSS task which I don't have the brain-space for just now. Cheers Mike On 29/05/2019 8:37 am, Mike Dewhirst wrote: Django 1.11 and Python 3.6 but upgrading to Django 2.2 (slowly) Currently I use a get_readonly_fields callable in the Admin as documented[1]. The callable determines whether request.user is allowed to edit the editable fields or not. This works well. However, the readonly user can still see/use the Delete button. The abovementioned callable doesn't make their own records readonly so those users do need change (edit) permissions. Therefore I cannot use permissions to solve the problem. Can anyone suggest an approach? Thanks Mike [1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.get_readonly_fields -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/6b8ea3e3-3931-6274-c605-99622bedc6ef%40dewhirst.com.au. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.