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Automate unique slug (again)

This takes the "easier to ask forgiveness than permission" approach to making sure your model's slug is unique. If the model's slug is empty, make a slug from the model's 'name' field. We assume that it is a conflicting slug that is throwing the IntegrityError, in which case if the slug does not end with '-' followed by a number then append '-2'. If the slug does end with '-' followed by a number then capture that final number, increment it by one, save the new slug value and try savin g again.

  • slug
  • save
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Group sequence into rows and columns for a TABLE

Two template tag filters that can be used to create a table from a sequence. <table> {% for row in object_list|groupby_columns:3 %} <tr> {% for obj in row %} <td>{{ obj }}</td> {% endfor %} </tr> {% endfor %} </table> The example above would create a table where items read from top to bottom, left to right, in 3 columns. "Empty" cells are added to the sequence by the filter so that your rows balance.

  • filter
  • templatetag
  • table
  • groupby
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