Django Pass Multiple Models to one Template

Question

I am building an address book that includes the relationships between entries, etc. I have separate models for Individuals, Companies, Venues, and Roles. On my index page I

Answer 1

If you want to build it on Django 1.5 you will be able to utilize stable version of CBVs. Please find code below.

Great doc you can find here https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/class-based-views/mixins/

class ProductsCategoryList(ListView):
    context_object_name = 'products_list'
    template_name = 'gallery/index_newborn.html'

    def get_queryset(self):
        self.category = get_object_or_404(Category, name=self.args[0])
        return Products.objects.filter(category=self.category)

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        kwargs['category'] = Category.objects.all()
        # And so on for more models
        return super(ProductsCategoryList, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)

Answer 2

I suggest you remove your object_list view,

define a dictionary for this specific view,

   all_models_dict = {
        "template_name": "contacts/index.html",
        "queryset": Individual.objects.all(),
        "extra_context" : {"role_list" : Role.objects.all(),
                           "venue_list": Venue.objects.all(),
                           #and so on for all the desired models...
                           }
    }

and then in your urls:

#add this import to the top  
from django.views.generic import list_detail

(r'^$', list_detail.object_list, all_models_dict),

Answer 3

I ended up modifying @thikonom 's answer to use class-based views:

class IndexView(ListView):
    context_object_name = 'home_list'    
    template_name = 'contacts/index.html'
    queryset = Individual.objects.all()

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super(IndexView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['roles'] = Role.objects.all()
        context['venue_list'] = Venue.objects.all()
        context['festival_list'] = Festival.objects.all()
        # And so on for more models
        return context

and in my urls.py

url(r'^$', 
    IndexView.as_view(),
    name="home_list"
        ),