How to use regions in custom templates

[__h__]

So I had an existing django project, but needed to add some content to certain templates that could be edited by the user.
The path I took was to install the page module and create fake pages that hold those regions and call the programatically in
the actual view like

class HomeView(TemplateView):
    template_name = 'home.html'

    def get_context_data(self):
        k = super(HomeView, self).get_context_data()
        k.update({'page': Page.objects.get(slug='home-page')})
        return k


and then in the template call

{{ page.content.main_message.0.render }}

Is this the way to tackle this? or is there a faincms way?

Thanks in advance.

[Martin J. Laubach]

Well the canonical way to render a Page is to use the feincms_render_region template tag (ie. your example would be {% feincms_render_region page "main_message" request %}).

[hernantz]

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thanks, that did the trick.