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authorRussell Keith-Magee <russell@keith-magee.com>2007-09-14 03:54:28 +0000
committerRussell Keith-Magee <russell@keith-magee.com>2007-09-14 03:54:28 +0000
commit2bec822ff345ed68047d618f707bb2765fad7e5f (patch)
tree4bf1073f91286b99e376108711d9e16635a24e24 /docs
parent70e5dce3651de6f5494233802a5de609182045df (diff)
Fixed #3895 -- Added ability to customize the context variable in the archive_index generic view. Thanks to marco.giusti@gmail.com and toke-django@toke.de.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@6157 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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-rw-r--r--docs/generic_views.txt9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/generic_views.txt b/docs/generic_views.txt
index 33c39b7e12..6671382b58 100644
--- a/docs/generic_views.txt
+++ b/docs/generic_views.txt
@@ -201,6 +201,9 @@ a date in the *future* are not included unless you set ``allow_future`` to
specified in ``date_field`` is greater than the current date/time. By
default, this is ``False``.
+ * ``template_object_name``: Designates the name of the template variable
+ to use in the template context. By default, this is ``'latest'``.
+
**Template name:**
If ``template_name`` isn't specified, this view will use the template
@@ -221,9 +224,13 @@ In addition to ``extra_context``, the template's context will be:
years that have objects available according to ``queryset``. These are
ordered in reverse. This is equivalent to
``queryset.dates(date_field, 'year')[::-1]``.
+
* ``latest``: The ``num_latest`` objects in the system, ordered descending
by ``date_field``. For example, if ``num_latest`` is ``10``, then
- ``latest`` will be a list of the latest 10 objects in ``queryset``.
+ ``latest`` will be a list of the latest 10 objects in ``queryset``. This
+ variable's name depends on the ``template_object_name`` parameter, which
+ is ``'latest'`` by default. If ``template_object_name`` is ``'foo'``,
+ this variable's name will be ``foo``.
.. _RequestContext docs: ../templates_python/#subclassing-context-requestcontext