Question

Two questions please:

I need two foreign keys back to User, one for author and one for coauthor. I have managed by setting related_name equal to + but am not sure if this is smart or the best way. Thoughts or pointers?

When making an add entry via the django admin for this model, the author choices are names like john_smith, etc. Where would I call get_full_names() from in order to display full names rather than usernames with underscores? Thanks.

from django.contrib.auth.models import User  
from django.db import models  
class Books(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField()  
    author = models.ForeignKey(User)  
    coauthor = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='+') 

Kevin

Answer 1

With regard to the second part of my question (displaying full names instead of usernames in the ChoiceField of a form), I found this link to be just the ticket: