django-transmeta into admin, displaying "None" in the field.label_tag
Question: I'm trying to integrate django-transmeta into my django installation on ubuntu
10.10 (python-django version on system is 1.2.3-1ubuntu0.2.10.10.1) Following
the instructions in the project home/summary
[here](http://code.google.com/p/django-transmeta/) I end up with the correct
new fields in the database, but when I open the admin interface and I try to
add an object, the translated filed "description" is not shown in the admin
panel and it's shown only **None**. Looking in the source code and after a bit
of debug, the variable passed to the template which the value is **None**
seems to be **field.label_tag**

This is the class inside models.py:

    
    
    class Place(models.Model):
    __metaclass__ = TransMeta
    lat = models.FloatField(blank=True, null=True)
    lon = models.FloatField(blank=True, null=True)
    alt = models.FloatField(blank=True, null=True)
    description = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    address = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    city = models.CharField(max_length=60)
    state_province = models.CharField(max_length=30)
    country = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    attributes = models.ManyToManyField(Attribute, through='PlaceAttribute')
    is_online = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    class Meta:
        translate = ('description', )
    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.description
    

In the settings.py I added this:

    
    
    LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
    
    ugettext = lambda s: s # dummy ugettext function, as django's docs say
    
    LANGUAGES = (
        ('en-us', ugettext('English')),
        ('it', ugettext('Italian')),
        ('de', ugettext('Deutsch')),
        ('fr', ugettext('French')),
        ('ru', ugettext('Russian')),
        ('cn', ugettext('Chinese')),
        ('th', ugettext('Thai')),
    )
    
    TRANSMETA_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE = 'en-us'
    

and this is a screenshot of the result in the admin interface: (sorry I'm new
here and can't post images in questions for antispam reasons, yet) [admin
screenshot here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/B9Tyk.png)

In the above admin form it should be something like:

    
    
    Description en-us:
    Description it:
    Description de: 
    ....
    

Have you an idea of what could the problem be? Or maybe it's a bug?

To improve my debug, could you kindly point me in the correct place inside the
django admin view where the **field.label_tag** is generated? (I'm quite new
to Django)

If some debug data is needed, please tell me and I'll gladly provide it.

Thanks in advance

Fabio


Answer: It looks like you're missing verbose_name attributes on your fields.

    
    
    from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
    
    class Place(models.Model):
        __metaclass__ = TransMeta
        # ...
        description = models.CharField(max_length=100, verbose_name=_("Description"))
        # ...
    
        class Meta:
            translate = ('description', )
    
        def __unicode__(self):
            return self.description
    

