On Jun 17, 3:52 am, DaveB <d...@davebritton.com> wrote:
> I have what must be a common problem: there are three master files,
> and a transaction in my admin site involves selecting an item from
> each of these files. The field in the Transaction table is a foreign
> key pointer to the master file's record. The default admin display
> condition in the add/change form is that the dropdown boxes for
> selecting the master file items only show an ugly "<tablename> object"
> label that is the same for all the choices so the user doesn't know
> which to select. The field in the Transaction table is a foreign key
> pointing to Person, for example, so the admin is not displaying data
> from the Person record referenced by the choice in the dropdown
> selection, it only shows that the choice is a Person object. I want a
> master table field value for each of the choices to be displayed, e.g.
> the value for Person.name, instead of "Person object". What's the way
> to make this happen? I've tracked the code that generates the drop-
> down html <option> tag to mysite/templates/admin/edit_inline/
> fieldset.html, line 12: ... {{ field.label_tag }}{{ field.field }}
> where field is an item in "line" which is an item in "fieldset" . I've
> tried a bunch of different ways to use fieldsets = [...] in
> TransactionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin) but I keep getting errors that
> claim my fields are not valid fields, although they are clearly
> defined in models.py and work fine otherwise when I remove the
> "fieldset= line[]". I have tried using raw_id_fields but this has no
> apparent effect, presumably because it's for list_displays not add/
> change forms.
> So, what's the right way to do this?
> Thanks for helping me!
> -Dave
>
Your question is very difficult to read - needs paragraphs.
But I think the answer to your problem is to define a __unicode__
method on the target model.
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