Display multiple views in single page - django

Question

I have a Django Webapp which has a few forms for adding data to the database.
Once this data has been added, I want to present this on a dashboard. So I have views that were written that add the logic for the data to be presented, but as far as i can work out you only map 1 view to a template otherwise the data won't be displayed on the template.
I think there is a way to pass the data as a context, but I can't get my head around how to write this for my view.
A really simple view i have to display events
def all_events(request):
event_list = Event.objects.all()
return render(request, 'pages/event_list.html',{'event_list': event_list})
I'm passing this to event_list which works fine. But if I % include % on the dashboard I get the HTML but not the data, which I now understand is right.
But being an absolute bigger with Django, I could really do with an example of the above which I can then apply to all my other views.
Thanks
HTML Template
{% extends 'partials/base.html' %}
{% load static %}
{% block head_title%}
<title> Dashboard </title>
{% endblock %}
{% block extra_css %}
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'libs/toastr/build/toastr.min.css' %}">
<!-- plugin css -->
<link href="{% static 'libs/admin-resources/jquery.vectormap/jquery-jvectormap-1.2.2.css' %}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
<div class="main-content">
<div class="page-content">
<div class="container-fluid">
<!-- start page title -->
<div class="row">
<div class="col-12">
<div class="page-title-box d-sm-flex align-items-center justify-content-between">
<h1 class="display-4 mb-0">Dashboard</h1>
<div class="page-title-right">
<ol class="breadcrumb m-0">
<li class="breadcrumb-item">Dashboard</li>
<li class="breadcrumb-item active">Dashboard</li>
</ol>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
{% include 'pages/event_list.html' %}
</div>
{% endblock %}
{% block extra_js %}
<script src="{% static 'libs/#ckeditor/ckeditor5-build-classic/build/ckeditor.js' %}"></script>
<!-- init js -->
<script src="{% static 'js/pages/form-editor.init.js' %}"></script>
<!-- pristine js -->
<script src="{% static 'libs/pristinejs/dist/pristine.min.js' %}"></script>
{% endblock %}

Answer 1

I'm not sure if I understand your problem correctly, but just including the pages.html file will not pass the correct context data to the dashboard if it is not in the view connected to the dashboard endpoint. Django directs an endpoint to a view, the view grabs the context data from the models or creates it, and returns a template with the data.
Your url pattern for the dashboard could look something like this
urlpatterns = [
path('dashboard/', dashboard_view, name="dashboard"),
]
and your view could then look like this
def dashboard_view(request):
event_list = Event.objects.all()
return render(request, 'path/to/dashboard.html',{'event_list': event_list})
Assuming the event_list.html file uses a context data variable correctly like the example shown below, it will be displayed on the dashboard as well.
{{ for event in event_list }}
{{ event.attribute }}
{{ endfor }}
What you're passing to the render() function is just a dictionary of context data for the templates to use, so as long as the correct data is in that dictionary and the correct variable names from the dictionary are used in the template being rendered, or any templates included within it, it should be displayed.
Hope this helps answer your question!