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 8913 "Make the ""must be unique"" error messages in ModelForms customizable" Alexander_Nesterov Leah Culver "feature request (?)[[BR]] model: {{{ class Context(models.Model): name = models.CharField(unique=True) }}} form: {{{ class ContextForm(forms.ModelForm): name = forms.CharField() class Meta: model = Context }}} example: {{{ form = ContextForm(request.POST) if form.is_valid(): form.save() }}} Is there any way to override an error message of ''validate_unique'': u""%(model_name)s with this %(field_label)s already exists.""? {{{ class ContextForm(forms.ModelForm): name = forms.CharField(error_messages={'unique': u'My custom message'}) }}}" Bug closed Forms dev Normal fixed forms, unique, validation Oroku Saki tinodb Michael Warkentin Matthew Schick uznick@… Ready for checkin 0 0 0 1 0 0