Custom product template in satchmo

Question

I'm implementing a store in satchmo. I've created a custom product MyProduct by using model inheritance from the Product Model (as seen in http://thisismedium.com/tech/satchmo-diaries-part-one/).

Now I'd like to have a custom product detail template for MyProduct, and only MyProduct. I tried creating a template in

/project/templates/product/product.html

But that overrides the template for ALL products in the store, not just MyProduct. I also tried:

/project/templates/product/detail_myproduct.html
/project/templates/product/myproduct.html

But none of those seemed to work either.

Answer 1

You were on the right path with your first guess: templates/product/product.html.

If MyProduct is written like this:

class MyProduct(Product):
    # ...
    steele_level = model.IntegerField()

    objects = ProductManager()  # using this object manager is key!

And it is registered with the admin:

admin.site.regsiter(MyProduct)

Then you should be able to create a new MyProduct in the admin and then key off of a myproduct property on the product in product/product.html:

{% if product.myproduct %}
    This is a MyProduct with Steele Level: {{ product.myproduct.steele_level }}!
{% endif %}

Or if you prefer messing around in ./manage.py shell:

from project.models import MyProduct
from satchmo_store.shop.models import Product

for p in Product.objects.all():
    print p 
    if hasattr(p, 'myproduct'):
        print "  >>> That was a MyProduct with steele_level %s" % p.myproduct.steele_level