I have a model with a status field that includes a choices argument to provide human readable options. Because the options were changing during development, the values stored in the database are rather generic - S01, S02, etc. There is one view in my application that provides a list of all the objects for this particular model with several sort options, including the status field. I was originally providing the ability to sort via a javascript plugin that examined the DOM, but as the site has grown a single list for all the objects has become unwieldy and had a significant negative impact on performance. I'm going to use the Django pagination module to bring things back in line, but this means I need to do my sorting on the server side instead of the client side.
There does not, unfortunately, appear to be any way to take advantage of Django's sorting features to sort by the human readable name. I can (and probably will) create a database table for my status values, which would allow me to look up the human readable names and use it to sort. I could also use list() to create a list to which I can add my own sortable attributes, but I'm concerned that this may leave me with performance problems. Are there any simpler solutions that I may be overlooking? Thanks, Jeromie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
