How do I display the human readable name of a choice?

[Kevin Audleman]

Hi everyone,

I've set up a model that has a state field with the input set to a
list of states,

state = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True,
choices=US_STATE_LIST)

The drop-down on the edit form works great, displaying 'Alabama' and
storing AL in the database. However when I view it, I see AL. How do I
get django to display the human readable name?

I would prefer to do this on the template level, as I'm using a view
from a contributed app that I can't modify.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Alex Gaynor]

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/instances/?from=olddocs#get-foo-display

Alex

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[Kevin Audleman]

Thanks Alex, however this is a solution at the View level, and I'm
using a view that I didn't write. Is there also a way to do this at
the template level?

Thanks again,
Kevin

On Feb 10, 1:24 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Kevin Audleman <kevin.audle...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi everyone,
>
> > I've set up a model that has a state field with the input set to a
> > list of states,
>
> > state = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True,
> > choices=US_STATE_LIST)
>
> > The drop-down on the edit form works great, displaying 'Alabama'  and
> > storing AL in the database. However when I view it, I see AL. How do I
> > get django to display the human readable name?
>
> > I would prefer to do this on the template level, as I'm using a view
> > from a contributed app that I can't modify.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin
>

> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/instances/?from=olddo...

[Alex Gaynor]

Yes, the same thing works {{ model.get_FIELD_display }}.

[Kevin Audleman]

I could've swore I tried that before posting my question and it didn't
work, but I tried it this time and it did. Anyhow, a long winded way
of apologizing for asking a simple question. Thank you for taking the
time to answer!

Kevin

On Feb 10, 3:41 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Aniket Zamwar]

This function gets for a specific information stored in the instance of the model.

If I want to display as a drop down in the template all the human readable names in the choices can I do that ?

Also, Before storing it to DB, how to convert it back to human redable to short version mentioned in CHOICES used to store in DB ?

[Vibhu Rishi]

you just need to enclose it in a get_<attribute name>_display and it will display it in the template file.

in your example below, you will need to show it as follows in your templates html file:

object.get_state_display

where object is whatever the object name you have passed via the view.

Hope this helps.

V.

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[Ousseynou Diop]

Hi friend ,

use this function to display the choices field.

models.py

class Article(models.Model):

   

    ARTICLE_CHOICES = (

)    

    status = models.CharField(max_length=120, choices=ARTICLE_CHOICES, )

in your templates

{% article in articles %}

<p>{{artcile.get_status_display}}</p>

{% endfor %}

[Joel]

This is clearly described in the polls application tutorial. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/intro/tutorial01/

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