Thanks Karen I am slightly embarrassed with this one, You are correct that variant works, the reason I thought it was not working is because the User.first_name fields were empty and they were showing as blanks.
:) On Jul 13, 3:54 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:28 AM, wickass <wick...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Django users > > > I have only been using python& django for about a week, so please > > excuse me if this question sounds stupid. > > > Basically I have a model which extends the users model via a OneToOne > > relationship like so: > > > class AgentProfile(models.Model): > > user = models.OneToOneField(User) > > company = models.ForeignKey(Company) > > is_admin = models.BooleanField() > > phone = models.CharField(max_length=15) > > fax = models.CharField(max_length=15) > > > However my chanlenge is that in the admin application on the Agent > > profile list all profiles are displayed as "AgentProfile object" > > Now I understand that I have to define a __unicode__ method in order > > to generate the object "name"(excuse the terminology). However in this > > instance I would like to display the first_name from the user object > > but I cant seem to get it to work. > > > I have tried: > > > def __unicode__(self): > > return self.user.first_name > > This variant is correct. If you are still getting "AgentProfile object" > after including this __unicode__ method in your model either you have not > indented __unicode__ properly within the model class definition (it needs to > be indented just as the field definitions are) or you have not reloaded the > changed code in whatever method you are using to test the behavior. > > Karen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
