Functionality to add more fields to the models

[Philip Mitchell]

Assuming I have a model User with fields first_name, last_name, and contact 

I want to have a system where if at any point the admin user will want to add other fields that were not captured he/she should be able to add them at will

assuming he wants to add age or email

how can I achieve this 

[Dhruv Agarwal]

You can achieve this by using Custom User model in your project.

To know the way refer to documentation:

1. Extending the user model

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/auth/customizing/#extending-the-existing-user-model

2. Defining custom user model

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/auth/customizing/#substituting-a-custom-user-model

Hope this helps you. 

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[Philip Mitchell]

Dhruv maybe the model is not specifically the User model it can be a model Books with fields title, description, author

[Lunga Baliwe]

maybe you may want have a look at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/db/models/#abstract-base-classes

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[Dhruv Agarwal]

If you want this kind of functionality, you should probably think of using a different DB a Non-relational one.

Or use trick like a JSON Field for storing the Dynamic Data.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/contrib/postgres/fields/#jsonfield

JSON Field storing the dynamic fields and their values

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