Can you change a field label in the Django Admin application?

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Josh Smeaton picture Josh Smeaton · Dec 13, 2008 · Viewed 55.5k times · Source

As the title suggests. I want to be able to change the label of a single field in the admin application. I'm aware of the Form.field attribute, but how do I get my Model or ModelAdmin to pass along that information?

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Javier picture Javier · Dec 13, 2008

the verbose name of the field is the (optional) first parameter at field construction.

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