Retrieve specific page content in another app's view

[asdfg]

I know there is a documented way of integrating page-cms with external apps. However, I wondered if there was a simpler method for what I want to do. Essentially, I just need to output a single field from a specific page in one of the views in an external app. I've got this in the view:

from pages.models import Content

def example(request):

    pagecontent = Content.objects.filter(page=11, type='content')

    ....

Using {{ pagecontent }} in the template outputs:

[<Content: faculties :: My content here>]

How can I get it to output just the content itself (the 'My content here' bit)?

[Nicolas Caniart]

A Content object has several attributes, I guess what you wish for is
the 'body' attribute of that object, i.e. :

{{pagecontent.body}}

Should do the trick.

Nicolas

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[asdfg]

I already tried that! It doesn't output anything at all then...

[captainmish]

On Apr 27, 12:46 pm, asdfg <m...@rkh.co.uk> wrote:
> I already tried that! It doesn't output anything at all then...

You seem to be getting a list back, rather than the actual content,
you could try:

pagecontent = Content.objects.filter(page=11, type='content')[0]

to get the first hit and return a content object rather than a list,
or use get instead of filter?

[asdfg]

That returns:

faculties :: My content here

('faculties' is the slug of the page btw)

[captainmish]

Good, so now you should be able to use in your template:

{{ content.fieldnamethatyouwant }}

[asdfg]

Ah cool - that's it. Thanks :)

[captainmish]

or {{ pagecontent.xyz }} even :)

[asdfg]

I guessed thats what you meant :)