[Django]-Provide extra context to all views

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You could use the template context processor:

myapp/context_processors.py:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from myapp.models import Project

def users_and_projects(request):
    return {'all_users': User.objects.all(),
            'all_projects': Project.objects.all()}

And then add this processor to the TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS setting for Django version < 1.8:

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
    ...
    'myapp.context_processors.users_and_projects',
)

And for Django version >= 1.8 add it to the context_processors list in the OPTIONS of the TEMPLATES setting:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        ...
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                ...
                'myapp.context_processors.users_and_projects',
            ],
        },
    },
]

Context processor will run for ALL your requests. If your want to run these queries only for views which use the base.html rendering then the other possible solution is the custom assignment tag:

@register.assignment_tag
def get_all_users():
    return User.objects.all()

@register.assignment_tag
def get_all_projects():
    return Project.objects.all()

And the in your base.html template:

{% load mytags %}

{% get_all_users as all_users %}
<ul>
{% for u in all_users %}
    <li><a href="{{ u.get_absolute_url }}">{{ u }}</a></li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>

{% get_all_projects as all_projects %}
<ul>
{% for p in all_projects %}
    <li><a href="{{ p.get_absolute_url }}">{{ p }}</a></li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
👤catavaran

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