Re: Failure to get data from database and onto template.

I just wanted to report back and see if you had any additional ideas to offer. I did change the meta from id to pk, but there was no change. Then I took reverse off the template for loop and (almost) everything was the way I wanted it. For some reason, Article 4 came out Sections 3,4,1,2, in that order. Their ids, in that same order, are 16, 15, 13, 14. In other words, if they were ordered by pk like the rest, they would be in proper order, but they are not. Since it is only this one group, I don't want to mess with the whole thing anymore, but I don't know what to do about these. The only thing I can think of is to delete 3 and 4 and then re-create them and hope that puts them in the right order. Any other ideas?

I was wrong about the Articles and Sections on the same view. Turns out it was the ID that was controlling everything, Django wasn't even looking at the slug, even when I put unique_together on the meta. Changing the names of the Sections didn't even work. Neither did putting article_id in the Sections regex. If I put sectionView first in the urlconf, all the sections would come up fine but none of the articles. If I put articleView first in the urlconf, the articles all came up and the sections got doesnotexist. The only thing that worked (and I tried A LOT of variations) was to put the Sections on (?P<slug>) only, no id, no digits.

So even though that problem is technically solved, if you have some best practices to share with me so I can get this done better next time, I am all ears. 

Thanks again for all the help.

On Thursday, October 2, 2014 4:08:24 PM UTC-5, Malik Rumi wrote:

Collin, 

Thank you for the suggestion. I will try it tonight after I get off work and can finish cleaning up the code following Daniel's answer. sectionView is supposed to be id/slug, but I included the Article name in the Section names, because I can't put a fk in the slug. So maybe that was also a newby mistake. This must be why Django is sending Article 1 and Article 2 Section 1 to the same view, it sees the match for 'Article' and stops there. So I'll probably end up renaming them, so as you can see, I have (made for myself) a lot of (re)work to do. But I am learning! 

On Thursday, October 2, 2014 12:49:47 PM UTC-5, Collin Anderson wrote:

For the ordering issue, I'd recommend setting ordering = ['pk'] in the Model class Meta, then you don't need to try to handle it in your view.

What does your sectionView look like? Does /{{ id }}/{{ slug }}/ uniquely identify both an article and a section, or should it be /{{ article_id }}/{{ article_slug }}/{{ section_id }}/ ?

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