How do I specify an order of values in drop-down list in a Django ModelForm?

Question

OK, here is the question.

class UserForm(forms.ModelForm):   

    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = (\'team\',  \'related_projects\') 


        

Answer 1

You'd need to specify an override for the team field and then you should be able to override the order with its queryset argument. Here I'm assuming the property in Team you want to sort on is name.

class UserForm(forms.ModelForm):
    team = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=Team.objects.order_by('name'))

    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ('team',  'related_projects') 

You can read more about ModelChoiceField here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/fields/#modelchoicefield