If you'd read the Django Book (IMO, an essential "before you start with
Django" read), you would have encountered the include tag in Chpt 4, the
introduction to the templates:
http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter04.html
On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 23:51:53 UTC+2, andrew jackson wrote:
>
> ...I can't believe i missed that as a builtin. Sorry!
>
> Thank you very much!
> -andrew
>
> On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:01:52 PM UTC-8, Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar
> wrote:
>>
>> Django does {% include %} too :)
>> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/templates/builtins/#include
>>
>> You could do something like: {% include "book_list.html" with
>> books=auth.book_set.all %}
>>
>> _Nik
>>
>> On 1/22/2013 8:03 AM, andrew jackson wrote:
>>
>> I have an object that shows up in lots of different parts of the system,
>> say a Book.
>>
>> I want to display a list view of Book objects in many different places,
>> e.g.,
>>
>> When looking at an Author's detail page, I want to see a list of recent
>> books they've written
>> when looking at a publisher page, similar.
>> In fact, even when looking at a book i'd like to have a list of books
>> that reference it.
>>
>> So, there's going to be html code that shows a table of books on
>> several different pages.
>>
>> My question is, what's the right way to follow DRY w/ django templates
>> and not duplicate the code that makes a list of books?
>>
>> If I was using Jinja, it'd be pretty straightforward to {% include %} a
>> snippet in each page that renders each queryset as a fancy table. It
>> doesn't look like template inheritance is set up that way here, though.
>>
>> So what's the right way to do it with Django? Am I thinking about it
>> wrong? I see a few django-fancy-tables plugins, but they seem pretty
>> heavyweight, and i'd like to understand the right way to approach the
>> solution here. In fact, I don't even know the right words to use to
>> describe the problem, so my google-fu is weak. Do I write a custom
>> template tag that takes a queryset as a parameter? Aren't custom template
>> tags to be avoided?
>>
>>
>> Thanks much for your time,
>> Andrew
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