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Suppose you have a Book model which has an author field as given below.
# app_name/models.py
class Book(models.Model):
...
author = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
And you want to show the author's email in the list view of Book model admin, here is how you do it.
# app_name/admin.py
from django.contrib import admin
from app_name.models import Book
@admin.register(Book)
class BookAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
...
list_display = ("author_email", ) # author_email value is coming from below
def author_email(self, obj): # You can create a custom method and show it in the 'list_display'
return obj.author.email
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