How can change fields name with list of labels when I am registring my model in django admin site

Question

I registered my model in admin.py, I want to change some model fields name with list of labels. I know how to do it in forms but mentioning labels in Admin model class are not reflecting it on Admin site. I need help how to use list of labels in Admin.py

class eAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('name', 'phone_number', 'email_id', 'country', 'state')
    list_filter = ('funnel', 'country', 'state')
    search_fields = ['email_id']
    exclude = ('city',)
    class Meta:
        labels = labels_list

admin.site.register(EApplications, eAdmin)

I have more than 20 fields I can't do it manually in models.py I want to use labels list

Answer 1

in your models you can add verbose field names

first_name = models.CharField("person's first name", max_length=30)

or you can utilize help_text

help_text="Please use the following format: <em>YYYY-MM-DD</em>."

see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/db/models/#verbose-field-names, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/models/fields/#help-text

Answer 2

You need to create forms in forms.py here i give you hit

forms.py file create in your app

from .models import EApplications
from django import forms

FIELDS_NAME=['name', 'phone_number', 'email_id', 'country', 'state',"etc your field name"]
FIELDS_LABEL=["Enter Name","Enter phone_number","Enter email","Enter country","Enter state","etc your field label"]

label_list=dict(zip(FIELDS_NAME,FIELDS_LABEL)) #dictionary of fields label pare

class EApplicationsForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model=EApplications
        fields='__all__'
        labels=label_list #assign label

admin.py file in your app need following update

from .forms import EApplicationsForm # import the form in this file
class eAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('name', 'phone_number', 'email_id', 'country', 'state')
    list_filter = ('funnel', 'country', 'state')
    search_fields = ['email_id']
    exclude = ('city',)
    form=EApplicationsForm #here assign imported form EApplicationsForm

admin.site.register(EApplications, eAdmin)

If you looking more dynamic rather than static, you need to define function which get data from model and zip it with relative fields with labels. And make same thing ahead at all. Just do it at your project and let me know your result...!!