Question

considering the following code:

models.py

class Manufacturers(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=32)

class Cars(models.Model):
    producedby = models.ForeignKey(Manufacturers)

forms.py

class CreateCar(forms.ModelForm): 
    class Meta: 
        model = Cars

… on the html page the “producedby” field appears like a list of “Manufacturer object” choices, which is not very useful, is it possible to display the Manufacturer.name field instead?
I have tried solutions suggested in other threads but none of them worked.

Many thanks for your help

Answer 1

I fixed it by overloading the __str__ method and returning the name as follows:

class Manufacturers(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=32)
    def __str__(self): return self.name