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Ben Kilah
Ben Kilah

Reputation: 3475

Django Verbose Name being lost

I was wondering if someone could explain to me why my verbose_name attribute of a model fields is being lost when using the follow code;

Model: 

information_request_issued_date = models.DateField(verbose_name='Date Information Request Issued', null=True, blank=True)

Form class:

class InformationRequestForm(forms.ModelForm):

class Meta:
    model = DevelopmentAssessment
    fields = ('information_request_issued_date')

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    super(InformationRequestForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
    self.fields['information_request_issued_date'] = forms.DateField(('%d/%m/%Y',), widget=forms.DateTimeInput(format='%d/%m/%Y', attrs={'class': 'date'}))

If i don't have the self.fields declaration in the form class the verbose_name works fine.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 304

Answers (1)

Abid A
Abid A

Reputation: 7858

Maybe because it's now a regular form field and thus doesn't have an attribute named verbose_name. Instead, it now has a label attribute.

Try this:

self.fields['information_request_issued_date'].label = 'Date Information Request Issued'

Upvotes: 2

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