23.4.4 Adding Profile to UserAdmin Thanks to Inline Instances
Our User model is associated with our Profile model on a one-to-one basis. When we create a user, both in the admin and elsewhere, we automatically create a Profile. It would be really nice if the Profile instance associated with the User instance were displayed while we edited a User.
To allow for the display of other objects in the form pages (add and edit pages), the admin provides inline objects: InlineModelAdmin and its two subclasses, TabularInline and StackedInline. The difference between the two is how they are displayed.
To display the Profile instance, we can create a class that inherits from either TabularInline or StackedInline and declare the model attribute to Profile ...
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