Accessing Model Property from Admin Index Page

[Lee]

I've opened a hundred docs/postings and can't find the correct syntax
for this simple task.

In my model I have a method and a property to return the result of the
method:

class MyModel(models.Model)
...
def get_my_property(self):
return '1234'
my_property = property(get_my_property)

Now I want to display this property on the index page in a {{ }}
variable tag. What is the correct syntax, and where can I find this in
the docs?

Thanks very much for any help.

Lee

[Daniel Roseman]

This question is not very clear. Exactly where do you want to display it? What template are you trying to edit?

In template syntax, you access a property in exactly the way you access any other model attribute - by using dot syntax. For example, {{ my_instance.my_property }}. However, it is not clear where you would be getting the instance from in your template, since the "admin index" doesn't access any model instances.

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DR.

[Lee]

DR - thanks for your reply. I need to display the model method result
(property) on index.html. Our index.html is heavily customized, and is
currently just a switchboard into the database tables via links like
this:

{{ app_list.1.models.21.admin_url }}

I'm hoping for a similarly simple way to show the results of model
methods on the same page so that we can provide a dashboard of
statistics from the database.

I appreciate your help.

Lee

[Daniel Roseman]

OK, once again you haven't made it very clear, but I'm going to presume that app_list is a list of dictionaries containing lists of model instances (blurgh, but never mind). So, in that case, what was wrong with my previous answer: that you refer to a property in exactly the same way as any other model attribute - eg {{ app_list.1.models.21.my_property }} ?

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DR.