verbose_name used inconsistently in contrib.admin

[Fran Hrženjak]

Hi all!

If I set verbose_name on a model, it is reflected on this model's admin list view and change view, but not in other areas of the admin, e.g. a FK field on another model.

Please see the attached screenshot.

Is this ticket material?

[Antje Kazimiers]

Hi Fran,

it would be helpful to see you models.py, it looks like you named a field 'question' that's why column names and filters are named like that. It's up to you to choose another field name like ask.

I also think this question rather belongs to the django-users mailing list.

Antje

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[Tim Graham]

Hi, This behavior looks correct. Field names are used when displaying a model's fields, so a model's verbose_name doesn't have any effect there. Consider a model that has a two foreign keys to the same model. Displaying the model name in that case wouldn't allow distinguishing between the fields.