Extend user admin model

Jean1 · October 26, 2020, 2:46pm

Hi everyone,

I’am triyng to integrate a form for the users who want to use my application.
The point is I need to create an admin author User with this form. But the admin model is locked, i can’t add some fields to the model and my users author admin need some other fields like “siret” or “iban”. It will be a marketplace with professionals sellers.
I saw on internet some topics about this subject.

There are 2 solutions (i think the solutions are ok but not optimal) :

Create a public user with extended model and after create an admin user without the extended fields: here
Create a hook to extend the admin model : here

I want to know if there is an other way and if there is not, what option is the best if strapi do some evolutions about it.
Other question, is it possible to have differents fileds for differents admin types. Ex: super admin doesn’t have same fileds than author admin.

Thanks in advance

DMehaffy · October 26, 2020, 3:27pm

Not currently @Jean1 with one of the recent releases we did add in the option to use oneWay or manyWay relations to the Admin panel users but those fields will not show up on the actual admin model (as it’s not required). You could for the time being create a model to hold this day with a relation to that (admin panel admins model) but until the strapi-admin package is moved to the plugin you won’t be able to extend it without forking and maintaining your fork of the strapi-admin package.

Jean1 · December 1, 2020, 10:20am

Hi @DMehaffy thanks for your message, but i’m not sure to understand how to do that. Can you explain a little bit more please and which version of Strapi do I need to do it ?

Thanks

DMehaffy · December 1, 2020, 6:06pm

Do which specifically?

Jean1 · December 1, 2020, 9:17pm

your solution. You said the solution is to create a relation between a custom model with fields and the Admin user model ?

DMehaffy · December 1, 2020, 10:04pm

In the content-type builder if you create a model with a relation field, you can point it to the strapi administrators as a source.

Jean1 · December 2, 2020, 10:56am

I can’t select specifically User (from: admin) like in your screen. Do you know why ?

darron1217 · December 2, 2020, 12:20pm

Admin User model relation is supported from 3.2.0
Check your version and upgrade it

DMehaffy · December 2, 2020, 1:40pm

Exactly, check your version. Latest release is v3.3.4

Here are the migration guides: https://strapi.io/documentation/v3.x/migration-guide/

Jean1 · December 2, 2020, 1:47pm

yes thanks i did it ,and it works

darron1217 · December 11, 2020, 10:44am

Is there any progress on converting strapi-admin as plugin?

DMehaffy · December 16, 2020, 6:04am

Not currently, I opened a feature request before I joined the Strapi team:

github.com/strapi/strapi

Allow extensions of the strapi-admin package for backend changes

opened 10:23AM - 27 Dec 19 UTC

derrickmehaffy

type: feature request severity: medium

- [ ] **I have created my request on the Product Board before I submitted this issue** - [x] **I have looked at all the other requests on the Product Board before I submitted this issue** **Please describe your feature request:** Allowing for backend modifications of the [strapi-admin](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/tree/master/packages/strapi-admin) Should be something to consider specifically related to the adminUI administrators model to customize it. This is a similar concept to the users-permissions extensions for the users model. Previously I was using a hook to make these changes: https://github.com/canonn-science/CAPIv2-Strapi/blob/production/hooks/admin-model/index.js ```javascript const _ = require('lodash'); module.exports = () => { return { async initialize() { await _.merge(strapi.admin.models.administrator, { connection: 'users' }); }, }; }; ``` I did this as a "hacky" solution to to change the database connection used for this model, but as of beta.18 this method appears to be broken. I have also attempted to set this via the bootstrap file but my guess is this happens on initial bootup of Strapi so any changes after wouldn't really matter. The admin itself in my opinion should be considered a "plugin" in itself as in theory you could run Strapi without the admin at all. I did not create a product board entry for this as it seems like such a small change I'm not sure if it is something that should be included on there.

LuisAlaguna · June 24, 2021, 8:48am

I need to extend same model for both User from Admin and User from user-permission, how could i do that?

Jean1 · January 11, 2022, 1:42am

I need to edit the login endpoint Admin, Is there any progress about that ?

LuisAlaguna · August 15, 2022, 2:36pm

It won’t happen, security concerns do not enable creating an admin endpoint.