Question

I setup associations in my models:

class User extends AppModel {
    var $name = 'User';
    var $hasMany = array('Post' => array('className' => 'Post'));
}

and

class Post extends AppModel {
    var $name = 'Post';
    var $belongsTo = array('User' => array('className' => 'User'));
}

Which work great, except in the scaffold, the User dropdown list shows the ID number and not the username. (Username is a column) How do I get it to show the username instead of id?

Answer 1

Add following to your User model:

var $displayField = 'username';