In Django Admin how do I disable the Delete link

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I've managed to disable the "Delete selected" action. Easy.

But a user can still click on an item and then there's the red Delete link at the bottom.

score 144 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 11 '11 at 18:39

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Simple :)

class DeleteNotAllowedModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    # Other stuff here
    def has_delete_permission(self, request, obj=None):
        return False

answered Aug 11 '11 at 18:39

Jonathan R.

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The action is still in the dropdown, but throws a forbidden 403. To clean it up you have to follow my solution. Plus do this as well. – radtek Sep 12 '14 at 16:56
Do you want to remove the dropdown too, in case of that, follow radtek's solution – Capuchin Sep 24 '14 at 09:33
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@radtek You are correct, that the action will still be in the dropdown, but the OP did state that he's already managed to disable the delete selected action. So this is all that's necessary. – McKay Oct 18 '16 at 18:27
Thats fine, I posted the complete solution 2 years ago.. not an issue. – radtek Oct 18 '16 at 19:30

score 93 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 19 '17 at 10:44

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If you want to disable an specific one that isn't custom do this. In django 1.6.6 I had to extend get_actions plus define has_delete_permission. The has_delete_permission solution does not get rid of the action from the dropdown for me:

class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    ....

    def get_actions(self, request):
        #Disable delete
        actions = super(MyModelAdmin, self).get_actions(request)
        del actions['delete_selected']
        return actions

    def has_delete_permission(self, request, obj=None):
        #Disable delete
        return False

Not including it in actions = ['your_custom_action'], only works for the custom actions (defs) you have defined for that model. The solution AdminSite.disable_action('delete_selected'), disables it for all models, so you would have to explicitly include them later per each modelAdmin

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answered Sep 12 '14 at 16:55

radtek

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I don't understand why returning has_delete_permission as false does not get rid of the action. I had to do both in django 1.6.6 – radtek Sep 12 '14 at 16:55
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You can just use `actions = None` instead of `get_actions()`. – Daniel Mar 19 '18 at 06:59
That would disable all actions, not just the delete, no? – radtek Mar 19 '18 at 21:59
Oh yeah, you're right, my bad lol. I was using this answer to help disable all actions, but you should be able to specify the specific actions you want – Daniel Mar 19 '18 at 22:15
Yeah, that makes sense – radtek Mar 19 '18 at 22:39
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`has_delete_permission` seems enough for me to disable delete everywhere. `del actions['delete_selected']` raises key error. Thanks :) – Rami Alloush Jul 23 '19 at 17:10

score 11 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 28 '10 at 17:33

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Simply disable the yourapp.delete_yourmodel permission for that user or the group to which (s)he belongs.

answered Oct 28 '10 at 17:33

Aidas Bendoraitis

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This doesn't work in Django 1.3 and earlier versions, because of this issue https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/8060 It's fixed in Django 1.4. – Teemu Kurppa May 30 '12 at 10:45

score 9 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 28 '10 at 14:30

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Well you probably are using:

AdminSite.disable_action('delete_selected')

For further control just implement your own admin and set its actions to whatever you need:

class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    actions = ['whatever', 'actions']

Reference: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/actions/#disabling-a-site-wide-action

answered Oct 28 '10 at 14:30

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Doesn't work. Doesn't affect the individual page. Just disables the action when browsing the list. – Peter Bengtsson Nov 01 '10 at 12:55

score 5 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 27 '19 at 15:18

The solutions here are already nice, but I prefer to have it as a reusable mixin, like this:

class NoDeleteAdminMixin:
    def has_delete_permission(self, request, obj=None):
        return False

You can use this in all your admins where you want to prevent deletion like this:

class MyAdmin(NoDeleteAdminMixin, ModelAdmin):
    ...

score 3 · Answer 6 · edited Nov 22 '22 at 08:19

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admin.site.disable_action('delete_selected')

From the docs

edited Nov 22 '22 at 08:19

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answered Apr 27 '17 at 13:20

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djvg · Answer 7 · 2020-03-24T14:47:41.967

This is very old, but still, it may help someone.

Assuming that OP's

... user can still click on an item and then there's the red Delete link at the bottom.

refers to the red button in the "change" view. This button can be removed by extending the ModelAdmin.change_view method as follows:

def change_view(self, request, object_id=None, form_url='', extra_context=None):
    return super().change_view(request, object_id, form_url,
                               extra_context=dict(show_delete=False))

You can do the same with show_save, and show_save_and_continue. More info and alternatives here.

Also note that, as of version 2.1, Django has a separate has_view_permission (docs), which may be a better option, depending on your use case.

In Django Admin how do I disable the Delete link

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