how to change display text in django admin foreignkey dropdown

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Published on 2010-06-18T16:27:07Z Indexed on 2010/06/18 16:33 UTC
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Hi all,

I have a task list, with ability to assign users. So i have foreignkey to User model in the database. However, the default display is username in the dropdown menu, i would like to display full name (first last) instead of the username. If the foreignkey is pointing to one of my own classes, i can just change the str function in the model, but User is a django authentication model, so i can't easily change it directly right?

Anyone have any idea how to accomplish this?

Thanks a lot!

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