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Eric Kim
Eric Kim

Reputation: 2698

Django - Forms - change field names on template

I have to following forms.py and models.py:

# models
class BHA_Component(models.Model):
    item_description = models.CharField(max_length=111)
    num_of_jts = models.CharField(max_length=111)
    length = models.CharField(max_length=111)
    cum_length = models.CharField(max_length=111)
    outer_d = models.CharField(max_length=111)

# forms
class BHA_Component_Form(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta():
        model = BHA_Component
        fields = '__all__'

So far, I've been printing the field names on the screen using html like this:

{% for field in bha_form %}
    <label>{{ field.name }}</label>
{% endfor %}

I passed in the form, bha_form as a context variable in views.py.

If I use this set of code, it this on a screen:

item_description, num_of_jts, length, cum_length, outer_d

But I want to print this on a screen:

Item Description, # of jts, Lenth, Cum. Len., OD

As you can see, I can't get this output by simply using some s.upper() method, or regex method, because there no certain string transformation relationship between the original field names and the output I want.

I want to manually decide what field names will be printed on a screen for each field. But I don't want to do this by hard coding html elements like this:

<label>Item Description</label>
<label># of jts</label>
<label>Length</label>

I want to do this on the backend using Django. How should I go about this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8995

Answers (1)

spectras
spectras

Reputation: 13542

Set a name on your fields. See verbose field names in the documentation.

class BHA_Component(models.Model):
    item_description = models.CharField('Item Description', max_length=111)

The verbose name will automatically be picked up (and capitalized) by the form to create label text.

I cannot check right now, but if my memory is correct, I believe you should be using field.label rather than field.name in your label though.

Upvotes: 7

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