if I'm not mistaken then the default ordering is used, that is given by your model's Meta class [1] otherwise, if you need a special ordering you might want to define your own model manager with a method that does just what you want, and call that method for the queryset
[1]: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/options/ V On Jun 7, 9:02 pm, josebrwn <joseb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a straightforward way to override the default ordering > of the date-based generic view, in order to allow > 'featured' entries to percolate to the top in a coltrane blog. So: > > info_dict = { > 'queryset': Entry.objects.all(), > 'date_field': 'pub_date', > > } > > urlpatterns = patterns('django.views.generic.date_based', > ... > (r'^$', 'archive_index', info_dict), > ) > > Would render the top 15 entries `order by featured DESC, pub_date > DESC`. > > Any hints much appreciated, thanks! > Joe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---