...I can't believe i missed that as a builtin. Sorry!
Thank you very much!
-andrew
On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:01:52 PM UTC-8, Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar
wrote:
>
> Django does {% include %} too :)
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/templates/builtins/#include
>
> You could do something like: {% include "book_list.html" with
> books=auth.book_set.all %}
>
> _Nik
>
> On 1/22/2013 8:03 AM, andrew jackson wrote:
>
> I have an object that shows up in lots of different parts of the system,
> say a Book.
>
> I want to display a list view of Book objects in many different places,
> e.g.,
>
> When looking at an Author's detail page, I want to see a list of recent
> books they've written
> when looking at a publisher page, similar.
> In fact, even when looking at a book i'd like to have a list of books that
> reference it.
>
> So, there's going to be html code that shows a table of books on several
> different pages.
>
> My question is, what's the right way to follow DRY w/ django templates
> and not duplicate the code that makes a list of books?
>
> If I was using Jinja, it'd be pretty straightforward to {% include %} a
> snippet in each page that renders each queryset as a fancy table. It
> doesn't look like template inheritance is set up that way here, though.
>
> So what's the right way to do it with Django? Am I thinking about it
> wrong? I see a few django-fancy-tables plugins, but they seem pretty
> heavyweight, and i'd like to understand the right way to approach the
> solution here. In fact, I don't even know the right words to use to
> describe the problem, so my google-fu is weak. Do I write a custom
> template tag that takes a queryset as a parameter? Aren't custom template
> tags to be avoided?
>
>
> Thanks much for your time,
> Andrew
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