pub_date field is not visible in admin panel, even after configuring the app made migrations i tried every way possible from my side

[Likhith K.P.]

from django.db import models

# Create your models here.

class Question(models.Model):

    question_text = models.CharField(max_length = 500)

    pub_date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add = True)

    def __str__(self):

        return self.question_text

class Choice(models.Model):

    question = models.ForeignKey(Question, on_delete = models.CASCADE)

    choice_text = models.CharField( max_length = 200)

    votes = models.IntegerField(default = 0)

    def __str__(self):

        return self.choice_text

[Ryan Nowakowski]

auto_now_add automatically sets editable=False[1]. When editable=False,
the field isn't displayed in the admin[2]. To show these fields in the
admin but leave them non-editable, list them as read-only fields[3] like
this:

# admin.py
from .models import Question

@admin.register(Question)
class QuestionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
readonly_fields = ['pub_date']


If you want these auto_now_add fields to be in the admin and editable,
I'm not sure, I've never done this. Maybe you can't explicitly set
editable=True on the field? Usually if I want to set a DateTime
automatically and also make it editable, I won't use auto_add_now.
Instead I'll override the save method and set the field there.


[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/ref/models/fields/#datefield
[2] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/ref/models/fields/#editable
[3] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.readonly_fields

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