How can I get the object count for a model in Django's templates?

Question

I\'m my Django application I\'m fetching all the objects for a particular model like so:

secs = Sections.objects.filter(order__gt = 5)

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Answer 1

Additionally to what Daniel said, Django creates reverse relationships automatically (as Daniel said above) unless you override their names with the related_name argument. In your particular case, you would have something like:

class Book(models.Model):
    section = models.ForeignKey(Section, related_name="books")

Then you can access the section's books count in the template by:

{{ sec.books.count }}

As you intimated in your question.