Django. You don't have permission to edit anything

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I created a little app a while ago. I created admin.py and used admin.site.register(MenuEntry) to add the class to admin console. It showed the items of that class just fine. Then I began working on another app and created everything as before. But now it says: You don't have permission to edit anything. I compared files from that and from this apps and they look quite similar, so I just can't find the difference and I can't realize what to do now to make it work.

I solved the issue. I checked the files again and found the difference. I forgot to add admin.autodiscover(). Now it's there and all works fine. Thanks! — Sergei Basharov, Sep 15 '10 at 13:47

score 136 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 15 '10 at 13:48

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I checked files one more time and found the difference. I forgot to add admin.autodiscover() in urls.py of the project. Thanks.

answered Sep 15 '10 at 13:48

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Thanks for the advice. Adding this when downgrading from Django 1.7 to 1.6 is important! – jnns Apr 29 '14 at 09:39

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 26 '13 at 14:32

I had another case where this happened. I had an app called "transcription", with two models: Project and Recording. After getting it mostly developed I decided to rename the app "recordings". The admin app worked fine as the admin but any non-admin user got this error message. Eventually I found (in my sqlite db) the table django_content_type. It had these records:

id  name      app_label     model
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8   project   transcription project
9   recording transcription recording
10  project   recording     project
11  recording recordings    recording

Somewhere along the way I had managed to add two (almost - don't know why "recording" in record 10) correct records while leaving the now incorrect records intact. The admin user worked just fine (I wonder why), but any other group got the error. When I looked at auth_group_permissions I saw that only records 8 and 9 were being assigned and of course there was no longer an app called "transcription". Hence the error.

I deleted records 10 and 11 and changed the app_labels of 8 and 9 to "recordings" and there's joy in Mudville.

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 27 '15 at 15:28

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Upgrade your Django to 1.7 or more, This problem will be automatically solved.

Upgrading Django:

pip install -U django

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answered Feb 27 '15 at 15:05

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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I was receiving the same error and had to refactor the appname as it conflicted with one of the modules being used. My app's name was admin and I was also using Django's admin.

Check the link - Change app's name, on how to do it.

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answered Aug 19 '15 at 12:38

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Sachin Patel · Answer 5 · 2015-12-21T10:04:43.890

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I just simply Removed all currently installed versions of Django. Then freshly install the latest version of Django and it works

edited Dec 21 '15 at 10:04

answered Mar 09 '15 at 06:38

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Django. You don't have permission to edit anything

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