#25267: Misleading error message for field in list_editable and not in
list_display
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Reporter: michalwerner | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: contrib.admin | Version: 1.8
Severity: Normal | Keywords: admin, error message
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Assume we have model with example filed {{{something}}}.
Now, creating admin page, if we place {{{something}}} in
{{{list_editable}}}, but NOT in `list_display` we have error like this:
{{{
SystemCheckError: System check identified some issues:
ERRORS:
<class 'someapp.admin.SomeModel'>: (admin.E122) The value of
'list_editable[0]' refers to 'something', which is not an attribute of
'someapp.SomeModel'.
}}}
Error message suggests that field {{{something}}} does not exist in model,
but in fact it DOES exist in model and DOES NOT exist in admin's
{{{list_display}}}, so the explanation is not true and leads to confusion.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25267>
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