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djangodjango-admin
tutuDajuju
tutuDajuju

Reputation: 10840

How to display a custom verbose_name on a GenericForeignKey in Django admin

I would like to display a custom field name (perhaps translated) for a GenericForeignKey field of a model in Django admin.

Unfortunately, a GenericForeignKey does not accept verbose_name (at least in Django 1.6), so how would I actually add a custom name in the admin?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2059

Answers (2)

tutuDajuju
tutuDajuju

Reputation: 10840

I was trying to avoid @kirill-kartashov 's method, so I experimented a bit with short_description attribute.

And I found that, apparently, you can add a short_description attr. directly to the GenericForeignKey like so:

from django.db import models
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _


class SomeModel(models.Model):
    content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType, null=True)
    object_id = models.CharField(max_length=32, null=True)
    related_field = generic.GenericForeignKey('content_type', 'object_id',)

    related_field.short_description = _('My related field')

Upvotes: 3

Kirill Kartashov
Kirill Kartashov

Reputation: 141

If you want to show custom name of field in list (not in add/edit form) just try this in admin.py

class YourModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    list_display = ('field1', 'custom_field')

    def custom_field(self, obj):
        return obj.real_field

    custom_field.short_description = u'Custom name'

Upvotes: 3

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