Sounds to me you'd like a separate auto-increment field?

On Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 11:55:48 AM UTC-5, Bruckner de Villiers 
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> Mike,
>
> I tried id = model.AutoField(verbose_name=”Ticket #”).  Migrate didn’t 
> like it – can’t have duplicate primaries.  I suspect this is because the 
> Bug model already exists.
>
>  
>
> What I am trying to achieve is an auto-increment field whereby every time 
> a user logs a bug/suggestion/comment it writes a unique ticket number in 
> the background, which is used as a reference for subsequent actions like 
> Fixed, Close, WiP, etc.  and as a ForeignKey in the Comment model.   I 
> couldn’t find anything meaningful for this functionality and so thought 
> that the ‘id’ is already fit for purpose, but merely requires an 
> explanatory field text.
>
>  
>
> Make sense?
>
>  
>
> Bruckner de Villiers
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> 083 625 1086
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>  
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> *From: *<[email protected] <javascript:>> on behalf of Mike 
> Dewhirst <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> *Reply to: *<[email protected] <javascript:>>
> *Date: *Saturday, 08 February 2020 at 13:48
> *To: *<[email protected] <javascript:>>
> *Subject: *RE: Adding a verbose_name to id field
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>  
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> I imagine you need to specify the id field in your model and give it a 
> verbose name. 
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>  
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> This is an unusual requirement. Why do you want to do such a thing?
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>  
>
> Mike
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>  
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> -------- Original message --------
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> From: Bruckner de Villiers <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
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> Date: 8/2/20 21:33 (GMT+10:00) 
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> To: [email protected] <javascript:> 
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> Subject: Adding a verbose_name to id field 
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>  
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> Using Sqlite3 & Django 3.0.2 - I have searched high and low, but can’t 
> find a way to add a verbose name to the id of a model.
>
> Anyone have ideas, please?
>
>  
>
> Bruckner de Villiers
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> +27 83 625 1086
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