Django - change select items display

[galgal]

I use ModelForm. One of fields is:

repertoire = models.ForeignKey(Repertoire)

I need to change it's display type. Instead of using unicode in display I want to show name and date of repertoire. How in ModelForm I can do that?

[Jani Tiainen]

27.8.2012 12:11, jm kirjoitti:
> hi
>
> do you solved it ? I'm looking for the same and do not find anything to
> change which column is used in the SELECT instead of __unicode__
>
> thanks
>
> jm
>
> Le mercredi 20 juillet 2011 00:16:06 UTC+2, galgal a �crit :

>
> I use ModelForm. One of fields is:
>

> |repertoire= models.ForeignKey(Repertoire)
> |
>
> I need to change it's display type. Instead of using *unicode* in

> display I want to show name and date of repertoire. How in ModelForm
> I can do that?
>

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You can change it by creating custom field and overriding
label_from_instance method.

It's documented just below
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3//ref/forms/fields/#django.forms.ModelChoiceField.empty_label

HTH,

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