#29700: Document ModelAdmin.autocomplete_view() and AutocompleteJsonView (as
customisation point).
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Reporter: David W. Lloyd | Owner: Alexandru
Type: | Balan
Cleanup/optimization | Status: new
Component: Documentation | Version: dev
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage:
| Someday/Maybe
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Changes (by rossettistone):
* status: closed => new
* resolution: wontfix =>
Comment:
From what I can tell, removing `ModelAdmin.autocomplete_view` closed a
pretty clean (if undocumented) option for modifying the label of items
returned in the autocomplete Admin form. This Stack Overflow post
illustrates: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55629887/change-django-
autocomplete-fields-label
After some exploration, I haven't found another way to accomplish the same
thing, i.e. providing a custom label for the admin autocomplete view
without just overriding the `__str__` method on the model itself (which is
rather heavy-handed).
I don't know enough to write docs on this issue myself, but I think that
documentation of the new pattern (or another way to edit autocomplete form
labels) would be very helpful.
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