raw_id_fields: How to show a name instead of id?

Question

Customizing a Django Admin panel, I\'m using raw_id_fields to select a ForeignKey from a Model which has thousands of elements, because the default select-box drop-down is i

Answer 1

For the representation of an object use __unicode__

class Person(models.Model):
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=50)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return u'%s %s' % (self.first_name, self.last_name)

In Python 3 use

def __str__(self):