Hello.
I wanted to display everything in the Thing database in a different webpage other than index.html.
I tried to add the following to the views.py to get it to display:
def clerks(request):
auctionitems = AuctionItem.objects.all()
return render(request,'clerks.html', {'auctionitems': auctionitems,})
note: Thing is equivalent to AuctionItem
However, I cannot get any data to display in a different webpage. It only shows in index.
from django.conf.urls import url, patterns, include
from django.contrib import admin
from collection import views
from django.views.generic import TemplateView
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$', views.index, name='home'),
url(r'^clerks/$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='clerks.html'), name='clerks'),
url(r'^cashier/$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='cashier.html'), name='cashier'),
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
]
That’s what my urls.py looks like. So, I do have a URL pointed to clerks. So I don’t think that’s my problem.
Here’s the issue:
url(r'^clerks/$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='clerks.html'), name='clerks'),
This URL line is skipping the view entirely and is going straight to the template. So you can’t do any additional logic — TemplateView just shows a static website.
The line would need to be:
url(r'^clerks/$', views.clerks, name='clerks'),
In order for the logic in views.py to run. :)