Here is my blog application, which contains the two models: from django.db import models from django.db.models import permalink from django.core import urlresolvers from django.contrib.auth.models import User from django.template.defaultfilters import slugify
import datetime # Create your models here. class Category(models.Model): """ A Category is a way to manage the taxonomy of the site""" name=models.CharField(max_length=50) #The name of the category description=models.TextField() slug=models.CharField(max_length=75, null=True, blank=True) active=models.BooleanField() generate_feed=models.BooleanField() parent=models.ForeignKey('self', null=True, blank=True) def __unicode__(self): return self.name def save(self): if not self.slug: self.slug = slugify(self.name) super(Category, self).save() def num_entries(self): """Returns the number of entries in this category""" return self.entry_set.count() num_entries.short_description = "Number of Entries" def get_absolute_url(self): """Get the URL of this entry to create a permalink""" return ('cat-detail', (), { "slug": self.slug }) get_absolute_url = permalink(get_absolute_url) class Meta: verbose_name_plural = 'Categories' class Admin: fields = ( ('Category Details', {'fields': ('name', 'description', 'parent',)}), ('Category Settings', {'fields': ('active', 'generate_feed', 'slug',)}), ) list_display = ('name', 'slug', 'active', 'generate_feed', 'num_entries', 'parent',) search_fields = ['name','parent'] PUBLISHED_CHOICES = ( (0, 'Draft'), (1, 'Pending Review'), (2, 'Published'), (3, 'Archived'), ) class Entry(models.Model): title=models.CharField(max_length=255) body=models.TextField() user=models.ForeignKey(User) slug=models.CharField(max_length=75, null=True, blank=True) pub_date=models.DateTimeField('date published') published=models.IntegerField(max_length=1, choices=PUBLISHED_CHOICES, verbose_name="Publishing Status") front_page=models.BooleanField(default=True) sticky=models.BooleanField() allow_comments=models.BooleanField(default=True) truncate=models.BooleanField() categories=models.ManyToManyField(Category, limit_choices_to = {'active':1}) def save(self): if not self.slug: self.slug = slugify(self.title) super(Entry, self).save() def __unicode__(self): return "%s" % self.title def was_published_today(self): """Flag to show if post was published today""" return self.pub_date.date() == datetime.date.today() was_published_today.short_description = 'Published today?' def is_published(self): return bool(self.published==2) is_published.short_description = 'Has Been Published?' def get_absolute_url(self): """Get the URL of this entry to create a permalink""" return ('news-detail', (), { "slug": self.slug, "year":self.pub_date.year, "month":self.pub_date.strftime("%b").lower(), "day":self.pub_date.day }) get_absolute_url = permalink(get_absolute_url) class Meta: verbose_name_plural = 'Entries' ordering = ['-pub_date'] class Admin: fields = ( ('Entry Content', {'fields': ('title', 'body', 'user', 'categories')}), ('Date information', {'fields': ('pub_date',)}), ('Publishing Details', {'fields': ('slug', 'published', 'front_page', 'allow_comments', 'sticky', 'truncate')}), ) list_display = ('title', 'user', 'front_page', 'sticky', 'allow_comments', 'truncate', 'pub_date', 'is_published', 'was_published_today', ) list_filter = ['pub_date', 'categories'] search_fields = ['body', 'title'] date_hierarchy = 'pub_date' ordering = ('pub_date',) On Dec 5, 2007 6:28 PM, RajeshD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hope that makes sense, as if I can do it this way instead of > > calculating it on the view, that would make this inclusion tag so much > > easier. > > What does your Entry model look like? > > > > -- Tane Piper Blog - http://digitalspaghetti.me.uk AJAX Pastebin - http://pastemonkey.org This email is: [ ] blogable [ x ] ask first [ ] private --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---