admin shows `model name` object instead of values for foreign key fields

[Larry Martell]

I have a 1.7 app, and in admin when I reference a foreign key field, instead of showing the values in the drop down, it shows "`model name` object":

This does not happen in 1.5 (in a different app). 

Here are my models:

class IPGroups(models.Model):

    groupName = models.CharField(max_length=20)

    

class AllowedIPs(models.Model): 

    ip = models.CharField(max_length=15)

    group = models.ForeignKey(IPGroups)

Here is my admin code:

class IPGroupsAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    list_display = ('groupName',)

    list_filter = ('groupName',)

admin.site.register(IPGroups, IPGroupsAdmin)

    

class AllowedIPsAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): 

    list_display = ('ip', 'group')

    list_filter = ('ip', 'group')

admin.site.register(AllowedIPs, AllowedIPsAdmin)

How can I get it show the values from the IPGroups table? I'm sure I'm doing something simple and stupid wrong, but I can't see it.

Thanks!

[Daniel Roseman]

On Friday, 6 February 2015 20:30:02 UTC, Larry....@gmail.com wrote:

I have a 1.7 app, and in admin when I reference a foreign key field, instead of showing the values in the drop down, it shows "`model name` object":

 

How can I get it show the values from the IPGroups table? I'm sure I'm doing something simple and stupid wrong, but I can't see it.

Thanks!

You haven't defined a `__unicode__` method (or `__str__` on Python3) on the IPGroups model..

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DR.

[Larry Martell]

Thank you very much Daniel.