Question

When using list_display as described under http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.list_display you can not only display fields but custom callables as well:

def colored_name(self):
    return '<span style="color: #%s;">%s %s</span>' % (self.color_code, self.first_name, self.last_name)
colored_name.allow_tags = True

And then use it like this:

list_display = ('first_name', 'last_name', 'colored_name')

Since first_name and last_name are normal fields we can just translate them like that:

first_name = models.CharField(_('first name'))
last_name = models.CharField(_('last name'))

So the question is:

How can I translate the name of my function? Where do I put my _(‘colored name’)?

Answer 1

The example on the page that you linked to shows that the callable can have an attribute short_description, which is the string used as the title of the column. I haven’t checked, but I strongly suspect that if you set that to a translatable string then it will work.

def colored_name(self):
    return '<span style="color: #%s;">%s %s</span>' % (self.color_code, self.first_name, self.last_name)
colored_name.allow_tags = True
colored_name.short_description = _("Colored Name")