Are there any plans to make list_display support stuff like  
artist__hometown, too?
I've been missing this one a lot because the helper method approach is  
both slow and doesn't allow for sorting/filtering/searching etc,  
besides cluttering up the models with code that shouldn't be there.

Erik

On 25.08.2008, at 19:18, Norman Harman wrote:

>
> Matt Berg wrote:
>> I apologize, I realize this is probably documented somewhere.
>>
>> Say I have 2 models.
>>
>> Artist and Album
>>
>> Album has a foreign key to Artist.
>>
>> I want to do a list_display of Albums something like this...
>>
>>              list_display = ('album','release_date','artist')
>>
>> This works fine and displays the info under the key for Artist.  What
>> I would like to do is access some of the other attributes of Artist.
>> Trying artist.hometown and artist[hometown] doesn't work.
>
> One way to do this is to create helper functions.
>
> def _get_artist_hometown(self):
>   return self.artist.hometown
>
>
> list_display = ('album','release_date',_get_artist_hometown)
>
> There're different options see
> http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/admin/#list-display
>
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