id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 10085 "Forms from model documentation: The importance of the ""_unicode_"" method of a model" olimination nobody "Though you note in the ""First steps""-tutorial that the ""_unicode-"" method is a quite often used method for the Django admin,etc. it would be nice, if you document this in the ""Forms from model"" documentation too, because the ""ModelChoiceField"" is using the ""_unicode_"" method for showing the model items in the html-select-field. If you don't provide this method, the html-select-field will be emtpy. No warnings or similar is showed by Django, its then a bit confusing for a newbie like me :-). For a newbie like me, it took almost a day to figure this out, because no error/warning have be thrown by Django. I think it will be helpful for other starting newbies that this behaviour should be explicit documented for the forms documentation." closed Documentation 1.0 wontfix forms model Unreviewed 0 0 0 0 0 0