From 8ab8a8910c6f9382610cba5b06ac5c110d52b4b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Javier Rojas Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 00:51:23 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Doc'd how ModelAdmin.list_display uses short_description. --- docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt index bcbdc1fb42..59d756db99 100644 --- a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt +++ b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt @@ -641,6 +641,10 @@ subclass:: :func:`~django.utils.html.format_html_join`, or :func:`~django.utils.safestring.mark_safe` instead. + * As some examples have already demonstrated, when using a callable, a + model method, or a ``ModelAdmin`` method, you can customize the column's + title by adding a ``short_description`` attribute to the callable. + * If the value of a field is ``None``, an empty string, or an iterable without elements, Django will display ``-`` (a dash). You can override this with :attr:`AdminSite.empty_value_display`::