Set List Display

Make the List Display More Reader-Friendly

When you display a Model as a list, Django displays each record as the string representation of the record object, which in our case is "Member object (1)", "Member object(2)" etc.:

To change this to a more reader-friendly format, we have two choices:

• Change the string representation function, __str__() of the Member Model
• Set the list_display property of the MemberAdmin class

Change the String Representation Function

To change the string representation, we have to define the __str__() function of the Member Model in models.py, like this:

Which gives us this result:

Set list_display

We can control the fields to display by specifying them in a list_display property in the admin.py file.

First create a MemberAdmin() class and specify the list_display tuple, like this:

Remember to add the MemberAdmin as an argumet in the admin.site.register(Member, MemberAdmin).

Now go back to the browser and you should get this result: