Django: verbose name for manytomanyfield in a modelform

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I'm looking to add a human-readable name to a manytomanyfield that will be displayed in a modelform. I've already been here: django display content of a manytomanyfield and that solution doesn't work for modelfields, unless I've misunderstood. I'm sure there's a way to do it, I just haven't been able to figure it out. Does anyone know?

Do you mean displaying many2many items in ChangeList admin view? — San4ez, Mar 27 '12 at 06:20

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 27 '12 at 09:16

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Do you mean a verbose_name field attribute?

foo = models.ManyToManyField("app.Model", ..., verbose_name="bar")

answered Mar 27 '12 at 09:16

Timmy O'Mahony

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 27 '12 at 07:34

You can try it this way:

class A(models.Model):        
    foo = models.CharField("Foo", max_length = 20)

    class Meta:
        verbose_name = "Human-readable"
        verbose_name_plural = "Human-readable"
class B(models.Model):
    bars = models.ManyToManyField(A, related_name='if_you_need')

Your bars field should display as "Human-readable".

Django: verbose name for manytomanyfield in a modelform

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