On Jan 11, 11:59 pm, Paddy Joy <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to customise my satchmo store so that it has a list of > root categories and thumbnails on the shop home page instead of the > featured products. What is the best practice for getting a list of > categories into the index.html template? > > I know I can edit the satchmo views and add > Category.objects.root_categories() to the template context but this > will make updating satchmo a pain in future. > > Paddy
I haven't yet spent much time with the Satchmo templates to see what context variables are available to them. That being said if it were me I would first examine how that categories are being displayed for the menu and see if I could make use of that. The second choice if that doesn't work would be to create either a custom template tag to display the information you would like, or a custom context processor to make the appropriate information available in your context. I would personally lean toward the custom template tag so I could re- use it in future sites. Also you could make it available to other Satchmo users that may find it useful. Satchmo snippets site anyone? James Bennett already wrote the code http://code.google.com/p/cab/ Steve --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
