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
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