On Nov 24, 11:59 am, dash86no <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've implemented a search function which brings up a list of database
> items on a page. My template looks like this:
>
> {% extends "base.html" %}
>
> {% block content %}
>
> {% if results %}
> <ul>
> {% for quote in results %}
> <li>{{ quote|escape }}</l1>
> {% endfor %}
> </ul>
> {% else %}
> <p>No quotes found</p>
> {% endif %}
> {% endblock %}
>
> My search code is like this:
>
> def search(request):
> query = request.GET.get('q', '')
> if query:
> qset = (
> Q(name__icontains=query) |
> Q(company__name__icontains=query) |
> Q(note__icontains=query)
>
> )
> #results = Quote.objects.filter(qset).distinct()
> results = Quote.objects.filter(qset)
> else:
> results = []
>
> return render_to_response("sam_app/search.html", {
> "results": results,
> "query": query
> })
>
> The problem, is that the outputted list is just static text. What I
> want, is a series of links that when I click one one of them, will
> bring up the relevant item in a form for editing.
>
> I found
> this:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/#topics-forms-index
>
> And saw the form.as_p form.as_table form.as_ul and got exited because
> I thought this might work. I edited the above code to make the search
> function pass a form object to the template, but then I got the error:
> Caught an exception while rendering: too many values to unpack.
>
> So I guess this isn't it?
>
> I know I could just put together a loop to generate links with the pk
> encoded inside the url, and do it like that, but it seems to me there
> should be a neat little method in django to do this automatically. It
> also though generic views might be the answer but I don't think you
> can customize those, right?
>
> Cheers,
You can use the create/update generic views[1] to provide the actual
edit pages. Once they are linked in your urls.py, you can use the {%
url %} tag[2] to link to them from your list template.
[1]:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/generic-views/#create-update-delete-generic-views
[2]: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/#url
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