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?
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