Colum not showing in admin panel

Question

Implementing custom user for my project,
here is my account/models.py

class myUser(AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin):
    #blah
    date_joined = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    #blah

and my account/admin.py

class myUserDetail(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('email','password','is_active','is_staff','date_joined',)
    fields = list_display    

admin.site.register(myUser, myUserDetail)

The list_display works fine, but when I click into a user, error is raised : Unknown field(s) (date_joined) specified for myUser. Check fields/fieldsets/exclude attributes of class myUserDetail. Unknown field(s) (date_joined) specified for myUser. Check fields/fieldsets/exclude attributes of class myUserDetail.

In fact it exists in postgres...
Please help!

Answer 1

The error is being triggered when the ModelForm is created automatically for the admin, specifically if there are missing fields . Because you are using auto_now_add=True , which implicitly sets editable=False , the field cannot be included in the automatically generated form. Because of this, an error is triggered.

I would recommend specifying fields and list_display independently, as they aren't actually the same.

Answer 2

When you use a custom User model in Django you should add the following line to your settings:

AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'accounts.MyUser'

I also think you should subclass from AbstractUser which is an abstract base class implementing a fully featured User model with admin-compliant permissions, and includes email , date_joined , etc. fields.

You can read more about customizing the user model in the Django documentation .