[Django]-How to make email field required in the django user admin

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Have a look at the source code of the UserAdmin.

The UserAdmin uses a UserChangeForm as it’s formproperty and a UserCreationForm as it’s add_form property. But you have overridden both of them with a class derived from UserCreationForm which is okay for the create view but doesn’t work for the update view .

from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm, UserChangeForm
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class EmailRequiredMixin(object):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(EmailRequiredMixin, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        # make user email field required
        self.fields['email'].required = True


class MyUserCreationForm(EmailRequiredMixin, UserCreationForm):
    pass


class MyUserChangeForm(EmailRequiredMixin, UserChangeForm):
    pass


class EmailRequiredUserAdmin(UserAdmin):
    form = MyUserChangeForm
    add_form = MyUserCreationForm
    add_fieldsets = ((None, {
        'fields': ('username', 'email', 'password1', 'password2'), 
        'classes': ('wide',)
    }),)

admin.site.unregister(User)
admin.site.register(User, EmailRequiredUserAdmin)

This should do the trick.

👤trixn

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