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Database metadata fields like description are not available in the index page template's context #2016

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palewire opened this issue Feb 5, 2023 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #2025
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Database metadata fields like description are not available in the index page template's context #2016

palewire opened this issue Feb 5, 2023 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #2025
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palewire commented Feb 5, 2023

When looping through databases in the index.html template, I'd like to print the description of each database alongside its name. But it appears that isn't passed in from the view, unless I'm missing it. It would be great to have that.
@simonw simonw added this to the Datasette 1.0 milestone Feb 5, 2023
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simonw commented Feb 5, 2023

This absolutely makes sense. One of the biggest goals for Datasette 1.0 is "documented template contexts" - for any default template in Datasette that people might want to over-ride there should be documentation that describes the available context variables, plus tests that ensure they don't accidentally get broken by future changes.

Ensuring description/title/etc are available on the index page feels like it fits well into that bucket.

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Add database metadata to index.html template context biglocalnews/datasette
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