Django admin - remove field if editing an object

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Published on 2010-05-19T15:23:08Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 16:20 UTC
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I have a model which is accessible through the Django admin area, something like the following:

# model
class Foo(models.Model):
    field_a = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    field_b = models.CharField(max_length=100)

# admin.py
class FooAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    pass

Let's say that I want to show field_a and field_b if the user is adding an object, but only field_a if the user is editing an object. Is there a simple way to do this, perhaps using the fields attribute?

If if comes to it, I could hack a JavaScript solution, but it doesn't feel right to do that at all!

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