I think you can add a method in the class .when you want to display the scientific notation on the admin pages ,just call the instance.method.and that is ok.
2011/8/5 Jeremy Dunck <jdu...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:32 PM, DjangoOfWar <margeem...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Right now I have a Decimal field in my model but I'd like it to >> display as scientific notation on the admin pages. >> >> Do I need to make a custom model field, that uses a custom form field >> or is there an easier way? >> >> (I'm on Django 1.2 if it matters) > > What you want is a ModelAdmin which declares formfield_overrides to > map the model Field to a custom widget: > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.formfield_overrides > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.