Question

I want to create a model named Model. I’m pretty sure this isn’t allowed, so I’m forced to use some other term for the model name. Let’s say I call it Mdl. However from the user perspective, I want to still refer to the table as Model. Is there a way to define a verbose name for the entire model Mdl the same way you can for model fields? In my templates, I reference the name of the current table at the top of the document:

{{ model }}

which gets passed from a view. If I can’t define a verbose name, then I’m going to have to call some function every time to translate Mdl’s name to Model just for that one table. Does anyone have an alternate suggestion?

Answer 1

You want Meta.verbose_name