Chapter 7.2. Dashboard Templates

The next logical place to go in our WhatWhat code walkthrough is the template code that displays the Dashboard. You can see a sample of this template’s output in Figure 7.1.

Figure 7.1. Dashboard Listing of open projects
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This is by far the largest Kid template we’ve seen, so it should help you to see how to put everything together in a more complex page.

The first thing the whatwhat.templates.dashboard.index template does is use Kid’s <?python ?> syntax to embed a brief snippet of Python into the template:

<?python
       from whatwhat.model import STATUS_BEHIND_SCHEDULE
?>

In general, it’s ...

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