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5.8.3 Building a Startup Detail Page

As we did for our tag_detail() view, we will now build a startup_detail() view. The function will show a single Startup object, directed to in the URL by the slug field of the model. Our function view thus must take not only a request argument but also a slug argument. In /organizer/views.py, enter the code shown in Example 5.45.

Example 5.45: Project Code

organizer/views.py in bb3aa7eb88

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 7  def startup_detail(request, slug):  8      startup = get_object_or_404(  9          Startup, slug_--iexact=slug) 10      return render( 11          request, 12          'organizer/startup_detail.html', 13          {'startup': startup})

As before, we use the slug value passed by the URL configuration ...