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You can put your hyperlinks inside a block that is overridden by the loading templates.

Let's say you have your framework.html like this:

{% extends "base.html" %}

<html>...<body>...
{% block hyperlinks %}
your hyperlinks here
{% endblock %}
rest of the code
</body></html>

You can then create something of a nolinks.html template and use it

{% extends "framework.html" %}
{# here you'll have everything from framework
but now we disable the breadcrumbs #}
{% block hyperlinks %}{% endblock %}

If you're getting the past data you can then use nolinks to render instead of framework.

I hope this helps.

Miguel Ventura 2010-04-04 18:13:50

I really like this idea. It gets me part of the way there. The problem is that I would still need a "nolinks" page for every template I needed to disable the menus on. Because the nolinks page extends a specific template, it only links to one at time. I tried including the nolinks page instead of calling it directly, but it appears that including doesn't pick up on the block tags that disable the necessary sections

Ed 2010-04-04 21:18:52

My idea was to have a single nolinks page, just with the definition of the empty block. Then all your templates without links could `extend nolinks` instead of extending `framework`. Should you find yourself doubling the number of templates to do this, then instead try passing a variable to the template and use something like `{% if dontshowlinks %}{% block hyperlinks %}{% endblock %}{% endif %}`.

Miguel Ventura 2010-04-05 22:09:11

I don't think you can make block tags conditional. That was my original problem. I ended up passing a variable and including the menus or not based on the resolution of that conditional.

Ed 2010-04-06 01:35:41

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