Thanks for reply but that is not what I am looking to do. my [EMAIL PROTECTED] table is NOT the categories table. In django, when it generates your models, it automatically generates your M2M table reference. so I have a table called blog that has a m2m relation with categories. (blog-->M2M-- >categories) Right! Ok so using distinct on the category table would NOT work since they would already be distinct. The table that I need to grab results from is the M2M table NOT categories. Make sense?
On Jan 25, 12:03 pm, Rajesh Dhawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > so if category_id 2 name is 'politics' it would know that it occurs 3 > > times. make sense? The easy way would be to create a counter field in > > the categories table and count each time that the category is being > > used but that is redundant and require extra work to save the category > > count each time I add a new entry. The answer is already there I just > > need to figure out how to retrieve that answer. :) > > You didn't include your full model, but have you tried something like > this? > > Blog.objects.filter(categories__name='politics').distinct().count() > > This assumes that Blog.categories is your M2M field. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
