Tables overrides model's verbose_name with auto-capitalization

[spaasis]

Hi,

I have some columns in my table that use specified units, for example Amount (mg). I have this defined in the model's verbose_name, and it shows as intended in for example Django Admin. However, in the table it shows as Amount (Mg), with a capitalized M (going from millis to megas :) ). This is also a problem with different translations, since in for example Finnish we don't tend to capitalize each word in headings etc.

I know I could define verbose_name again in the table class, but that would mean double work, and make maintenance a bit more difficult.

Is this behaviour intended? Is there some workaround or configuration that I could use to disable this?

Thanks for an awesome plugin!

[jieter]

I've be bitten by this too, but it's the way it was when I started maintaining this plugin. I'm open to changing this if there is a more sensible way, but it should be thought through, documented and tested well.

If you can, please propose a changes using a PR.

[jiajianbo]

I think models is for datebase, if you use table for web ,I think you should set label like this "circleName = forms.CharField(label='CircleName', max_length=20)" , I hope can help you At 2017-08-30 14:33:52, "Simo Paasisalo" <notifications@github.com> wrote: Hi, I have some columns in my table that use specified units, for example Amount (mg). I have this defined in the model's verbose_name, and it shows as intended in for example Django Admin. However, in the table it shows as Amount (Mg), with a capitalized M (going from millis to megas :) ). This is also a problem with different translations, since in for example Finnish we don't tend to capitalize each word in headings etc. I know I could define verbose_name again in the table class, but that would mean double work, and make maintenance a bit more difficult. Is this behaviour intended? Is there some workaround or configuration that I could use to disable this? Thanks for an awesome plugin! — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[jieter]

verbose_name argument to model fields is not for the database either: it's used in ModelForms and the admin.

django docs on Verbose field names state:

The convention is not to capitalize the first letter of the verbose_name. Django will automatically capitalize the first letter where it needs to.

django-tables2 capitalizes every word of the verbose name. This is different from what django does, so changing it to the django default behavior makes sense to me.

[mbertheau]

Just for reference, titlization was removed in #187, then added again in #249, #368, #382.

[jieter]

landed in master, I just did a pre-release of 2.0.0 with version 2.0.0a0. Please help by testing and report any issues.