Django update table
obj = Info(name= sub,question=response_dict["question"]) obj.save() After saving the data how to update another field of the same table obj.err_flag=1 obj.update()//Will this work ...
django-templates
Hot to reuse table header sort feature of Django admin?
Is possible to reuse the table header sort feature of the admin forms in my own views and templates? ...
Creating nested links in Django template from a list of objects
I'm new to Django, so apologies in advance if this is a rookie issue. Basically, I am passing a list of objects ('tags') to a template and would like to create the following display: tag1> tag2> tag3 where tag1 is a link to /mysite.com/tag1 tag2 is a link to /mysite.com/tag1/tag2 tag3 is a link to http://mysite.com/tag1/tag2/tag3...
Is there any way to reuse template tag value in Django templates?
For example, let's say there is a custom template tag {% custom_tag "parameter" %} This tag requires some serious database work to calculate. Now I need to have something like that (pseudocode): if {% custom_tag "parameter" %} .... else .... I know that with context variables I can do just: {% with variable.x.y.z as v %} {% i...
how to make django custom template tag with variable length arg list
I'm writing a custom template tag 'firstnotnone', similar to the 'firstof' template tag of Django. How to use variable length arguments? The code below results in TemplateSyntaxError, firstnotnone takes 1 arguments. Template: {% load library %} {% firstnotnone 'a' 'b' 'c' %} Custom template tag library: @register.simple_tag def firs...
How to filter a template tag?
I've got a tag that looks like this: {% partial "partials/vehicleform.html" vehicle=vehicles.empty_form %} Which just renders an empty form. But now I want to pass the output of that to the escapejs filter so that I can use it in a JavaScript variable. How can I do that? ...
Django not generating "selected='selected'" for html select list representing a booleanfield
Please excuse the long code, but the question itself is short. Using Django 1.2.1 with MySQL Server version: 5.1.37 with mysqldb 1.2.2 on Python 2.5 For the model QUALIFICATION_TYPE_CHOICES = ((1, 'WGH'), (2, 'PQR')) class Qualification(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=50) qualification_type = models.PositiveS...
Django Templates extends tag problem
I am using {% extends "base.html" %} I get the following error must be the first tag in the template. Can any one please help ...
Django templates CSS Javascript inheritance problem
I have the following structure /templates/base.html templates/index.html --- here i have inherited base.html which has JS and CSS and both working fine when this pagge is accessed /template/app/some.html ---- i use {%extends "base.html"%} only is getting inherted but not the CSS and JS can any one tell what i am doing wrong Than...
"Best" way to conditionally display the values of different model fields in Django templates?
I'm building a site which will provide product information in two languages: English and Chinese. Each product must have an English name, and may also have a Chinese name. Each time a product page is requested, the request object is inspected to determine whether the product's name should be displayed in English or Chinese. In the latt...
Is there a way to make block optional in Django
In Django's templates system, if I have a block that I want to make optional using an if statement, how do I do it? I was trying this: {% if val %}{% block title %}Archive {{ foo }}{% endblock %}{% endif %} But that doesn't work. Is there a way to do that, so that for a given value (in this case Null) the block isn't issued and the ...
On edit data from inlineformset_factory is missing
This is my code to get recipe data objRecipe = models.Recipe.objects.get(id=recipe_id) recipe = models.RecipeForm(instance=objRecipe) objRecipeSteps = models.RecipeStep.objects.filter(recipe__id = objRecipe.id) recipeSteps = models.RecipeStepFormSet(queryset=objRecipeSteps) I am able to display data from "recipe" but not from "recipe...
[Django] Doing a for loop within a template
I want to a do for loop like (for int x = 0; x < 3; x++) in a django template. How should I do it? Pseudo code looks like the following: {% for Summary in Summary_list %} {% ifchanged Summary.bu_id %} </tr> <tr> <td>{{Summary.bu.version}}</td> {% if Summary.platform_id != 1 %} ...
Django jQuery views user question
I seem to be stuck and am not sure which is the best direction to take. I have a few apps in my project and would like to combine three views into one template. I have a userprofile in which I would like to display his info, latest news feeds and also his photos Through this I am making use of jQuery tabs I have defined my three tabs...
Limit number of characters with Django Template filter.
I am trying to output the first 255 characters of a description on a list of items and am looking for a method to get that. Example: I have a variable that contains 300 or so characters. I call that variable like this, {{ my_variable|characterlimit:255 }} and it would return only the first 255 characters of that variable. If this tag...
Appengine forms Option Select from db.Model
My application does not write all data in the database. In the example below just type in the DB name. All fields select dropdown are not recorded in the database. Help please I have a models Docente ESCOLHA_SEXO = (u'masculino', u'feminino') CHOICES_UNIDADE = ('Escola Superior de Tecnologia', 'Escola Superior de Gestao') CHOICES_CAT...
Check if a date is in the future
How can I check from within a Django template whether a given date is in the future? Something like: {% if event.date > now %} ...
TemplateSyntaxError while moving from django 1.1 to 1.2.1
I am moving my Django app from v1.1 to v1.2.1 However I am stuck on a TemplateSyntax error as seen below. I have not made any other changes to my app TemplateSyntaxError at / Caught ImportError while rendering: No module named urls None of my url reverses in the template seem to work. Here is the culprit line: <a href="{% url myapp...
URL template tags fail in Test mode, but work in Dev and Production ( Django 1.2.1 )
I've been trying to add the django-lean app to my project. I have not been able to get the tests to pass. It took me a few days with a debugger to determine what the problem was. It seems that all the URL template tags fail in Test mode, but not in Production nor Developement. Failure happens in django.template.defaulttags.URLNode.ren...
Django - Rendering Inclusion Tag from a View
so I was wondering if you could return an inclusion tag directly from a view. The page is a normal page with a list of items. The list of items is rendered using an inclusion tag. If an ajax request is made to the view, I want to return only what the inclusion tag would return so I can append it onto the page via javascript. Is some...