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DasLukas
DasLukas

Reputation: 151

Django - display multiple views in one template

I am currently working on a Django project, in which I want to build a kind of dashboard, which may have actually two bootstrap columns (in the future maybe 3-4). In each column, content from a database is to be displayed. Currently, this means that I want to show two tables. One which shows all entries for a model and a table which shows the last history entries (django-simple-history). The tables are rendered using django-table2.

First of all I tried to solve the problem with the MultiTableMixin. Unfortunately without success. My current idea is to logically split the content into two views and then add a view for each column. I tried to have the views displayed inside iframes. Also, this not working as good as thought.

What are the options for my problem. Or am I thinking too complicated and getting lost?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1780

Answers (1)

JSRB
JSRB

Reputation: 2623

Your headline is a bit misleading since your issue is actually quiet simple:
Just make two queries within your view to get two query objects with which you render the columns/tables. So you have one view (function) but the logic is still seperated content wise:

def get_data_for_columns(request):
    column_all_data = YourModel.objects.all()
    column_latest_data = YourModel.objects.all().order_by('-publish_date')[10:] # 10 latest objects by publish date

    context = {
        'all_data': column_all_data
        'latest_data': column_latest_data
    }
    
    return render(request, 'your_template.html', context)

template:

# example loop data and render table

   <table>
     <tr>
       {% for item in all_data %}

       <td>{{ item.value }}</td>

       {% endfor %}
     </tr>
   </table>

   <table>
     <tr>
       {% for item in latest_data %}

       <td>{{ item.value }}</td>

       {% endfor %}
     </tr>
   </table>

Upvotes: 4

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