Thanks for the quick response! Worked like a charm.
On Oct 22, 1:25 pm, Peter Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Oct 22, 5:10 pm, Ardesco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Taking an example from Chapter 7 of the Django Book:
>
> > from forms import PublisherForm
>
> > def add_publisher(request):
> > if request.method == 'POST':
> > form = PublisherForm(request.POST)
> > if form.is_valid():
> > form.save()
> > return HttpResponseRedirect('/add_publisher/thanks/')
> > else:
> > form = PublisherForm()
> > return render_to_response('books/add_publisher.html', {'form':
> > form})
>
> > If say my model had 10 attributes, and I wanted to split it up into 5
> > different blocks (i.e. put pairs of elements in their own div block
> > and whatnot), is there any easy way to do this? I know if you pass
> > lists in, you can do something along the lines of:
> > {% for item in form|slice:":2" %} to get the first two elements, for
> > example, but you apparently cannot do this when you pass a form object
> > to the template. Is there an easy way to do this without writing a lot
> > of code in the template/view?
>
> Easy. Turn the fields in the a list and then slice works. But you have
> to do that in the view as far as a I know.
> So
>
> fields = list(my_form)
> return render_to_response(...
>
> Then:
>
> {% for field in fields|slice:":5" %}
> {{ field }}
> {% endfor %}
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