Extend user admin model

DMehaffy · December 16, 2020, 6:04am

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

Allow extensions of the strapi-admin package for backend changes

opened 10:23AM - 27 Dec 19 UTC

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.