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Django admin with read-only permission

1. July 2010 - view comments

I work as a freelancer and do many django related projects. My clients care in most cases very much about django's admin site and want to have it customized in many different ways.

One client even has a django project that uses the admin site as only frontend. It's an intranet CRM system - but they need to assigned every employee change permissions because every user must be able to view every entry.

Since django doesn't support read permissions in the admin this was the only way to do it. Here is a quick-and-dirty fix without creating extra views for readonly pages, extra templates etc.

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