Allow end user to add / remove fields from model in Django

Question

Please consider this situation: I've several clients on my website and each one can create employee from his dashboard. But each of them may want different fields in there form or user model.

Example: Client_1 wants name, email, phone in there form Client_2 wants name, phone, address, and birth_date

So from default form/model client should be able to remove unwanted fields and create his required fields.

I Hope this can be done using Django or ContentTypes

Please anyone knows then please provide detailed answer. It would be really helpfull.

Answer 1

It really depends on what you're situation looks like. The biggest problem is the input type. It's hard to generalize BooleanField, CharField, IntegerField or TextField into one field of some model. But I would start trying to save everything to CharFields and then convert them to the correct inputs in the Form. The models would look something like this:

class CustomField(models.Model)
    label = models.CharField('label', max_length=100)
    input_type = models.ChoiceField('label', choices=(('text', 'text'), ('integer', 'integer')) max_length=100)
    value = models.CharField('value', max_length=100)


class Contact(models.Model):
    custom_fields = models.ManyToManyField(CustomField)

Variant 2 Coming from your examples you could also just try to cover all of the fields and then make a visibility setting. So the users see all fields they can choose and just change if the want them to have.

Something like this:

class Contact(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField('name', max_length=100)
    email = models.CharField('email', max_length=100)
    phone = models.CharField('phone', max_length=100)
    address = models.CharField('address', max_length=100)
    birth_date = models.DateField('birth_date', max_length=100)

class VisibilitySettings(models.Model):
    name = models.BooleanField(default=True)
    email = models.BooleanField(default=True)
    phone = models.BooleanField(default=True)
    address = models.BooleanField(default=True)
    birth_date = models.BooleanField(default=True)