On 22 juil, 14:38, "Marty Alchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 5:17 AM, James PIC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to use the value of a field of the model for Meta verbose_name. > > Do you mean an instance of the model? Like, if you have an Article > whose title attribute is "Testing" you'd like "Testing" to show up in > the admin for that article? If that's the case, you're not after > Meta's verbose_name at all. That's only for the model itself, not for > any instances of it.
Actually, i'm trying to do so for the model itself, not for instances. It looks like Django's assumption that a model name should be a static string is not overloadable. > To customize how model instances are displayed in the admin (and > elsewhere), just define a __unicode__ method on your model, and have > return whatever you'd like. In the Article example I mentioned, it > might look like this: > > class Article(models.Model): > title = models.CharField(max_length=255) > #... other fields > > def __unicode__(self): > return self.title > > Make sense? It has nothing to do with Meta options. Of course, if > that's not really what you're after either, I'm not sure how else to > help you. Some features i need for model inheritance are broken in nfa. I extended AdminSite to allow several ModelAdmin per Model, and put all properties that should have been inherited into the parent Model. (i don't mind making a migration script later) But if i subclass AdminBase, i'll have to copy and paste ModelAdmin to subclass my AdminBase child. I'm still looking for a temporary solution, even if i should recode the models when model inheritance is fixed. Regards, James. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
