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 >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/TRxMsFf3sN0J. >> To post to this group, send email to django...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> django-users...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/mX8kNJMJdGAJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.