I think you can use forloop.parentloop.counter inside of the inner loop to achieve the numbering you're after.
Jeb
2008-11-14 15:25:47
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Good thought, but that counter only increments when the outer loop iterates. The first section's articles are all labeled 1, the second section's are all 2, etc.
Patrick McElhaney
2008-11-14 15:32:05
Ah, of course. I think you'd have to make a custom template tag for that.
Jeb
2008-11-14 16:29:12
A:
You could just use an ordered list instead of unordered:
{% regroup articles by section as articles_by_section %}
<ol>
{% for article in articles_by_section %}
<h4>{{ article.grouper }}</h4>
{% for item in article.list %}
<li>{{ item.headline }}</li>
{% endfor %}
{% endfor %}
</ol>
Daniel
2008-11-14 18:50:39
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A:
Following Jeb's suggeston in a comment, I created a custom template tag.
I replaced {{ forloop.counter }} with {% counter %}, a tag that simply prints how many times it's been called.
Here's the code for my counter tag.
class CounterNode(template.Node):
def __init__(self):
self.count = 0
def render(self, context):
self.count += 1
return self.count
@register.tag
def counter(parser, token):
return CounterNode()
Patrick McElhaney
2008-11-21 16:23:07
That's neat. One small improvement might be to pass an optional parameter to the tag so you can have multiple counters on the page (self.count would be a dictionary.)
Tom
2008-12-11 12:17:55
Thanks. Actually, I do have multiple counters on the same page and it "just works." Each instance of "{% counter %}" corresponds to a different instance of CounterNode. So each {% counter %} individually tracks how many times it's been called.
Patrick McElhaney
2008-12-11 14:40:35
+1
A:
This isn't exactly neat, but may be appropriate for someone:
{% for article in articles %}
{% ifchanged article.section %}
{% if not forloop.first %}</ul>{% endif %}
<h4>{{article.section}}</h4>
<ul>
{% endifchanged %}
<li>{{forloop.counter}}. {{ article.headline }}</li>
{% if forloop.last %}</ul>{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
Tom
2008-12-11 12:33:33