How to add a calculated field to a Django model

Question

I have a simple Employee model that includes firstname, lastname and middlename fields.

On the admin side and li

Answer 1

Ok... Daniel Roseman's answer seemed like it should have worked. As is always the case, you find what you're looking for after you post the question.

From the Django 1.5 docs I found this example that worked right out of the box. Thanks to all for your help.

Here is the code that worked:

from django.db import models
from django.contrib import admin

class Employee(models.Model):
    lastname = models.CharField("Last", max_length=64)
    firstname = models.CharField("First", max_length=64)
    middlename = models.CharField("Middle", max_length=64)
    clocknumber = models.CharField(max_length=16)

    def _get_full_name(self):
        "Returns the person's full name."
        return '%s, %s %s' % (self.lastname, self.firstname, self.middlename)
    full_name = property(_get_full_name)


    class Meta:
        ordering = ['lastname','firstname', 'middlename']

class EmployeeAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('clocknumber','full_name')
    fieldsets = [("Name", {"fields":(("lastname", "firstname", "middlename"), "clocknumber")}),
]

admin.site.register(Employee, EmployeeAdmin)