On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Kostas M <kmo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > It seems like Django-admin doesn't take in account the 'to_field' > > directive. > > > > (Django Version 1.1.0) > > I found out that this problem was already reported in Ticket #8648 > (http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/8648) with the title 'Admin > ignores to_field on ForeignKey'. > The proposed fix, isn't included in the stable django versions? > > I don't believe that is the same problem. That problem was fixed before 1.0 shipped, and the fix included tests, so we would be seeing test suite failures if it had regressed. We are not, so I believe that problem is still fixed in 1.0, all higher releases, and trunk. In that problem, the admin was truly ignoring the to_field: that is, it was looking up and displaying the information about the entirely wrong model. That is not what happens in what you describe. In your case, the admin is displaying the unicode representation of the correct target model instance, but your target model's unicode method is coded to display the primary key, not the field you have specified using to_field on the pointing model's ForeignKey. If you want information about the to_field to be displayed, then you will need to either change your target model's unicode method, or customize admin to display different information in the cases you are interested in, since by default admin displays the unicode representation of models. For the change list display customizing the admin is relatively easy. For example: class M2Admin(admin.ModelAdmin): def mycode_display(self, m2obj): return m2obj.mycode.code2 list_display = ['mycode_display', 'mydata'] admin.site.register(Model2, M2Admin) would do what I think you are looking for. Changing the display in the change view is a little more involved -- that needs to change the form used by the admin to one where the field in question has a customized label_from_instance that returns what you are looking for. Karen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
