For CharField with choices, the filter shows the "short name" of the choice instead of the verbose name

[jcmcken]

In the default Django filter, the verbose name is shown when a CharField filter has choices. When I enable your filter classes, I only get the short name, which isn't really recognizable or useful for filtering.

[mrts]

Hm, I haven't tried that myself. What version of Django are you using?

[jcmcken]

>>> import django
>>> django.__version__
'2.0.4'

Typically if somefield is the field, you would use the get_somefield_display helper method that Django provides, which automatically converts the short form of the choice to the long form

[mrts]

Are you using ChoiceDropdownFilter?

In case you are and it still does not work:

My assumption would be that {{ choice.display }} will take care of this in the template layer as that's what Django's admin and FeinCMS use. But perhaps things have changed. Do you care to investigate this a bit? If yes, take a look at the following:

• how does Django's own templates/admin/filter.html do this nowadays?
• what has changed int Django's ChoicesFieldListFilter that ChoiceDropdownFilter?

[mrts]

@jcmcken, assuming you were not using ChoiceDropdowFilter, closing. Please feel free to reopen if this is not the case.