Re: Database question

2006-12-01 Thread Todd O'Bryan
Do both. Have one table for entries, but include a ForeignKey to a class/table called Ministry (or Section, or Category, or whatever). Then all your blog entries will be in one big table, but you will be able to request only the ones that fit the category you're interested in. To create a new pag

Re: Database question

2006-12-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 01-Dec-06, at 8:05 PM, Eric Lake wrote: >> 1) If it is all in one table then doing a search for information >> on the >> entire site would be easier. >> 2) If they are separated then adding a new page later would be >> done by >> just adding a new class to the model.py. i would go for on

Re: Database question

2006-12-01 Thread Eric Lake
That sounds good. I will start playing around with this and see if I can get something up with it. Thanks again for all of your help. On Dec 1, 12:52 pm, "Guillermo Fernandez Castellanos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It almost seems that I could do away with the MINISTRY_CHOICES piece > > and j

Re: Database question

2006-12-01 Thread Guillermo Fernandez Castellanos
> It almost seems that I could do away with the MINISTRY_CHOICES piece > and just use the tags because if a tag name does not already exist the > admin interface will allow one to be created from the Entries page. If > that is the case then if I want a page to only display the posts for > music (a

Re: Database question

2006-12-01 Thread Eric Lake
OK. So does the following code look like it would work the way that we have been discussing? from django.db import models from django.contrib.auth.models import User # Create your models here. MINISTRY_CHOICES = ( ('MUS', 'music'), ('SIN', 'singles'),

Re: Database question

2006-12-01 Thread Guillermo Fernandez Castellanos
> Thank you. That is what I was thinking but I wanted to get others > opinions first. This will also help stay with the DRY ideals. I guess > the real difficult part would be if a new ministry is added to the > list. If I understand how it works I would have to make changes in the > model and then

Re: Database question

2006-12-01 Thread Eric Lake
Thanks for the comments. I am still in a planning phase and new to django as well. I will have to wrap my head around the tag stuff but these are great ideas. On Dec 1, 11:13 am, "Guillermo Fernandez Castellanos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you. That is what I was thinking but I wanted t

Re: Database question

2006-12-01 Thread Chris Ryland
On Dec 1, 9:59 am, "Eric Lake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you. That is what I was thinking but I wanted to get others > opinions first. This will also help stay with the DRY ideals. I guess > the real difficult part would be if a new ministry is added to the > list. If I understand how it

Re: Database question

2006-12-01 Thread Eric Lake
Thank you. That is what I was thinking but I wanted to get others opinions first. This will also help stay with the DRY ideals. I guess the real difficult part would be if a new ministry is added to the list. If I understand how it works I would have to make changes in the model and then modify th

Re: Database question

2006-12-01 Thread Guillermo Fernandez Castellanos
Cheers, I would do it in a single table. Maybe i would add a field to the Post like: MINISTRY_CHOICES = ( ('MUS', 'music'), ('SIN', 'singles'), ('STU', 'students'), ) ministry = models.CharField(ma

Re: Database question

2006-12-01 Thread Eric Lake
Does anyone have a suggestion? On Nov 29, 9:24 pm, "Eric Lake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am working on a church site that will have multiple areas. There will > be pages for each of the different ministries like music, singles, > students, etc. I am wanting a blog like function for each of t