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

By adding __str__() method to the model Patient this way:

class Patient(models.Model):
name=models.CharField(max_length=200)
#.........
def __str__(self):
    return self.name

will display name of patient instead object. For detail check here

Answer 2

You need to define, which column that you want to display...

for example:

class POAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('qty', 'cost', 'total')

Answer 3

The string you're seeing is coming from __unicode__ method, as others have mentioned. But the thing is that admin saves string representation of an object when it creates log event, therefore if you add __unicode__ implementation after the log entry was saved, you won't see new titles on old items, only after you make some new activity