Django “xxxxxx Object” display customization in admin action sidebar

Question

I would like to change the default behavior of how the admin recent changes sidebar displays the name of \"objects\" added. Refer to the picture below:

Answer 1

You're right in thinking that __unicode__ does that. I have this running right now:

class Film(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    ...
    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.title

When I look in the recent actions list, I see the title of the film that I have just edited.