oops forgot to include:
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
On May 17, 6:18 pm, nih <steven.bisse...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the info, took me a while to figure out what to do next,
> I haven't delved into django internals much before. I ended up
> with....
>
> from django.db.models import ForeignKey
> from django.forms import ModelChoiceField
>
> class UserModelChoiceField(ModelChoiceField):
> def label_from_instance(self, obj):
> if obj.first_name and obj.last_name:
> return "%s.%s" % (obj.first_name[0], obj.last_name)
> else:
> # return username if first_name or last_name is empty
> return obj.username
>
> class UserForeignKey(ForeignKey):
> def formfield(self, **kwargs):
> defaults = {'form_class': UserModelChoiceField}
> defaults.update(kwargs)
> return super(UserForeignKey, self).formfield(**defaults)
>
> class TestModel(models.Model):
> name = UserForeignKey(User)
>
> # and that's it!, hardly any extra code in the end.
> # django :)
>
> thx for the help Sam, i'd of never found that in the docs otherwise.
> or it would of taken a really long time :)
>
> On May 17, 3:15 am, Sam Chuparkoff <s...@sadach.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 15:12 -0700, nih wrote:
> > > in the admin change form the select box only shows name.username (eg
> > > nih)
> > > is it possible to show the full name in the select box
>
> > You are looking to override label_from_instance(). See here
>
> >http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.0/ref/forms/fields/#modelchoicefield
>
> > sdc
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