On Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:17:18 UTC+1, eyscooby wrote:
>
> slowly getting there thanks to your help.
> I am actually trying to accomplish this in the Admin interface, so I
> am not sure how to use the template tag {{ ticket.days_old }} in that
> situation.
>
> the other part I left off yesterday under my model I then had..
> (trying to get code formatting correct but keeps going to the left
> margin on me when i post)
>
> def days_old(self):
> return self.objects.datecalc()
> days_old.short_discription = 'Days Old'
>
> more or less is that a correct way I would pull in a custom manager,
> lets say if this one didn't have the iteration to it which seems be to
> be my problem part now.
>
> thanks
>
No, because that's not what managers are for. Managers are interacting with
the database, and getting and returning one or more new model instances. If
you already have an object, and you want to calculate the date on it, you
want a model method that simply returns a value, not call the manager.
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