Django - Change Select Items Display

I use ModelForm. One of the fields is: repertoire = models.ForeignKey(Repertoire) I need to change its display type. Instead of using __str__ (or __unicode__ in Python 2) in displ

Solution 1:

Subclass ModelChoiceField and override label_from_instance to return the repertoire name and date. Then use the new field in your ModelForm.

from django import forms

class RepertoireModelChoiceField(forms.ModelChoiceField):
    def label_from_instance(self, obj):
        return "%s - %s" % (obj.name, obj.date)

class MyModelForm(forms.ModelForm):
    repertoire = RepertoireModelChoiceField(queryset=Repertoire.objects.all())