On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 17:28 +0000, keukaman wrote:
> I'm using generic views to display a list of news headlines. I use {%
> for object in latest %} in my template to show a listing of my
> headlines.So it sounds like you are using the date-based generic views and, since you are using "latest", you are using the archive_index() view function in particular. > > I have a couple of questions for anyone who may have a few minutes to > explain: > > 1. What entries are pulled by "latest"? I have 20 entries and the > oldest 5 are the only ones not showing up. The documentation for the archive_index() view is here: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/generic_views/#django-views-generic-date-based-archive-index You can see that it takes a "num_latest" parameter that defaults to 15. If you want more or less than 15 items, pass in a different value for that parameter (it becomes another entry in the dictionary you pass in your URL configuration file, as per the example at the top of that page). > 2. Is there a "for" statement using generic views that will pull all of > my headlines? Try the list_detail.object_list() view. It is no longer date based (which makes sense, because you want to control the set of results in some other way). The queryset you pass into that view will be the one that extracts all of your headlines. Maybe something like Headlines.objects.all(). > 3. Are there any examples of code that show pagination that a python > lightweight (me) could easily program? In the list_detail.* views, pagination is built in; see the documentation for generic views for an explanation of the controlling parameters. There is no pagination for date-based generic views at the moment. Ticket #2367 is an enhancement request to add pagination to date-based views and will probably go in at some point. At the moment we're more focused on bug fixing than adding enhancements, so it won't be going in immediately, but the ticket has some merit, so it hasn't been closed as "wontfix". Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
