Ok so I have a solution for my second problem, but it requires importing the sidebar class in all my views, and including sidebar.html in every web page. Is there a better way to do this? a way to have this just happen in my base.html template?
On Jul 7, 12:34 am, keegan3d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to create a sidebar and an running into some trouble. I > have 2 problems: > > My model is pretty straight forward. I have categories and links under > the categories. > > class Catagory(models.Model): > name = models.CharField(max_length=200) > > ... > > class Link(models.Model): > catagory = models.ForeignKey(Catagory) > name = models.CharField(max_length=200) > url = models.CharField(max_length=200) > icon = models.ImageField(upload_to=('upload/sidebar/icon/%Y/%m/%d'), > blank=True) > newWin = models.BooleanField('Open in new window?') > > ... > > The first problem I am trying to solve is how to format my template so > that the appropriate links are under each category. > > It looks like "regroup" is the way to go, but I am not sure how to > format the data in my view class so that "regroup" will work. Because > the data is in two classes. > > The second problem I am having is I cant see a good way to use this > app in all my web pages to populate the sidebar. Can you do an include > of a view? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---