I appreciate your reply, but you haven't quite helped me out.
If I do the filtering in views.py, I the template would have to make
assumptions about the type of context variables I will be passing it.
Or am I seeing this the wrong way?
On 15 April 2012 00:41, dummyman dummyman <tempo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> do the filtering part in views.py . templates is meant only for visual
> purpose
>
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Nikhil Somaru <nsom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>>
>> I would like to do something like queryset filtering in a template. Is
>> the only solution via a template tag?
>>
>>
>> # models.py
>>
>> class StudentProfile(models.Model):
>>
>> # class defined here
>>
>> # ...
>>
>>
>> class Department(models.Model):
>>
>> # ...
>>
>> students = models.ManyToManyField('StudentProfile', null=True,
>> blank=True)
>>
>> # ...
>>
>>
>> class Activity (models.Model):
>>
>> # ...
>>
>> department = models.ForeignKey('Department')
>> # ...
>>
>> I would like to do the following in a template:
>>
>> The context variable is student
>>
>> {% for dept in student.department_set.all %}
>> * *{% for activity in student.activity_set.all.*
>> filter(department=dept)* %}
>> {{ activity }}
>> {% endfor %}
>> {% endfor %}
>>
>> This would produce something like a list of all activities for each
>> department the student is in. I have removed formatting and html to make it
>> clearer.
>>
>> Obviously, you can't pass arguments to filter in a template. How can one
>> achieve this?
>>
>> --
>> Yours,
>> Nikhil Somaru
>>
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