Change Django ModelChoiceField to show users' full names rather than usernames
You can setup a custom ModelChoiceField that will return whatever label you'd like.
Place something like this within a fields.py or wherever applicable.
class UserModelChoiceField(ModelChoiceField): def label_from_instance(self, obj): return obj.get_full_name()Then when creating your form, simply use that field
UserModelChoiceField(queryset=User.objects.filter(is_staff=False), required = False)More info can be found here
When working with a ModelForm, I found the following most useful so that I didn't have to redefine my queryset - in particular because I used limit_choices_to in the model definition:
class MyModelForm(forms.ModelForm): def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super(MyModelForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.fields['user'].label_from_instance = lambda obj: "%s" % obj.get_full_name()customised from this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/7805824/432992
You can override the field with a custom ModelChoiceField and change the label_from_instance function to return get_full_name instead. See the docs for ModelChoiceField: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/forms/fields/#modelchoicefield