This was through a custom form in a public view. I haven't done much with admin forms but maybe someone else knows?
On Sep 4, 4:50 pm, Anthony Simonelli <asimonell...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is this within the Admin interface? If so, I'm having a similar > problem. I have a model called Request with a FK relationship to an > Employee model. Within the Admin interface, when adding a Request, > the drop-down of the Employees selection read "Employee Object". This > is also the case when listing the Employees. There is no way to > distinguish between the employees. > > How do I change, what I think is called the "string representation" of > the object within the Admin interface. Also, is there some sort of > naming convention when creating models to get these fields > automatically? > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Streamweaver<streamwea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I had a model that lists an owner with a FK relationship to the Users > > table. > > > When using model form the dropdown for the owner field defaults to the > > username. > > > I'd like to override that to use a users name as the choice portion of > > the dropdown sorted by users last name but I'm having trouble thinking > > through how to do this. > > > Can anyone point me to an example of something like this? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
