I'm attempting to display an image when editing a user on the admin panel, but I can't figure out how to add help text.
I'm using this Django Admin Show Image from Imagefield code, which works fine.
However the short_description attribute only names the image, and help_text doesn't seem to add an text below it.
How can I add help_text to this field like normal model fields?
EDIT:
I would like to have help_text on the image like the password field does in this screenshot:
Use a custom form if you don't want change a model:
from django import forms
class MyForm(forms.ModelForm):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(MyForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.fields['image'].help_text = 'My help text'
class Meta:
model = MyModel
exclude = ()
@admin.register(MyModel)
class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
form = MyForm
# ...
MyModel contain the help_text parameter like this: image = models.ImageField(<...>, help_text='My help text')?If you don't want to create a custom model form class :
class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
def get_form(self, request, obj=None, change=False, **kwargs):
form = super().get_form(request, obj=obj, change=change, **kwargs)
form.base_fields["image"].help_text = "Some help text..."
return form
It took me a while to figure out. If you've defined a custom field in your admin.py only and the field is not in your model. Use a custom ModelForm:
class SomeModelForm(forms.ModelForm):
# You don't need to define a custom form field or setup __init__()
class Meta:
model = SomeModel
help_texts = {'avatar': "User's avatar Image"}
exclude = ()
And in the admin.py:
class SomeModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
form = SomeModelForm
# ...
model or exclude attributes either (just help_texts) to make it work with the Admin panel :D