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Easy sorting of tables with Django

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webstack-django-sorting allows for easy sorting, and sorting links generation without modifying your views. It is the perfect companion of linaro-django-pagination”,

There are really 5 steps to setting it up with your projects.

  1. List this application in the INSTALLED_APPS portion of your settings file. Your settings file might look something like:

    INSTALLED_APPS = (
        # ...
        'webstack_django_sorting',
    )
  2. Install the sorting middleware. Your settings file might look something like:

    MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
        # ...
        'webstack_django_sorting.middleware.SortingMiddleware',
    )
  3. If it’s not already added in your setup, add the ‘request’ context processor:

    TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
        'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
        'django.core.context_processors.debug',
        'django.core.context_processors.i18n',
        'django.core.context_processors.media',
        'django.core.context_processors.static',
        'django.core.context_processors.tz',
        'django.core.context_processors.request',
        'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
    )

    This example comes from Django 1.6, take care to check against your Django version which context processors are supported (see global_settings.py file of your Django installation).

  4. Add this line at the top of your template to load the sorting tags:

    {% load sorting_tags %}
  5. Decide on a variable that you would like to sort, and use the autosort tag on that variable before iterating over it:

    {% autosort object_list %}
  6. Now, you want to display different headers with links to sort your objects_list:

    <tr>
        <th>{% anchor first_name _("Name") %}</th>
        <th>{% anchor creation_date _("Creation") %}</th>
    </tr>

    The first argument is a field or an attribute of the objects list, and the second one (optional) is a title that would be displayed. The previous snippet will be rendered like this in French:

    <tr>
        <th><a href="/path/to/your/view/?sort=first_name" title="Nom">Nom</a></th>
        <th><a href="/path/to/your/view/?sort=creation_date" title="Création">Création</a></th>
    </tr>

    If your application doesn’t support internationalization, you can use a simple {% anchor first_name Name %}.

That’s it!

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