Hi, I'm new to Django and Python too, and just started planning the migration of an existing app to Django, after reading (though not very carefully) The Definitive Guide to Django. Excellent documentation, BTW!
I'd like to know which is the recommended approach to handle this situation in Django -- though I'm not sure how Django-specific my question is. A user does a search, the result is a paginated list of records, and each record on the list has a link to a details page for that record. Once in the details page, the user has these 3 navigation links: A. Go back to the list (i.e., to the same results page where the current record appears, preserving list sort order) B. Go to the details page for the previous record in the list C. Go to the details page for the next record in the list Also, the user can stay on the current record, but changing its display style among several available styles. Whatever the chosen style, the above 3 links must be present. So the problem is: how do you keep the context (search query, and record's position in results list), so that the above 3 links can be generated from the details view/template? FYI, my app originally saved that context in the URL used to request a details page, thus creating ugliness such as ...&task=display_record¤t=2&total=13&queryID=/tmp/filesbdfi4 to display the 2nd record in a list of 13 results, where 'current' is the index of the current record in the list, 'total' is the length of the list, and 'queryID' points to a temp file where the query results are cached. Is the scenario I described common enough to have some known name? Can the Django's session framework help me in this situation to keep the URLs short and clean? What approach do you suggest? Thank you in advance for sending some light in this direction :-) --Fernando --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
