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
12455	admin_order_field for Admin list_display not working for callable	Kegan Gan	Brian Rosner	"In the Admin, when using [http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.list_display list_display], we should be able to make a sort callable if it is associated with certain database field through the use of attribute ''admin_order_field''. Example:

{{{
def submitted_date(self, obj):
    return obj.created_at.strftime('%d %b %Y')
submitted_date.short_description = 'Submitted Date'
submitted_date.admin_order_field = 'created_at'
}}}

''NOTE: created_at is a DB field in the model.''

This is currently not working.

Searching through the code, I believe the bug is located in [http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/contrib/admin/templatetags/admin_list.py?rev=11965#L75 the following Django code]. The ''attr'' variable seems will always be ''None''."		closed	contrib.admin	dev		fixed	list_display admin_order_field	ramusus@…	Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0