Re: request for generic views functionality...

2007-04-14 Thread watusee
Mike, Thanks for the replay. I realize I was probably too general in my request. Allow me to get down and dirty. So I did some more research and tried this approach in my model: class NewsManager(models.Manager): def all_news(self): qs = Event.objects.extra(tables=['news_art

Re: request for generic views functionality...

2007-04-14 Thread Mike Axiak
Hey Raymond, A couple ideas that wouldn't require a different type of generic view: 1) If they are related to each other, why not use the relations to get the objects you want? {% for event in article.event_set.all %}... 2) If all your pages are using the events etc. Why not create a context p

request for generic views functionality...

2007-04-13 Thread watusee
Greetings all. I have a problem/concept I've been struggling with. I have an app called News with three models: Article, Press Release and Event. Each model has some fields in common (headline, date, body) and other fields unique to each model. I had initially thought to combine the three models i