How to create an article list view in django-cms

I am an absolute beginner in django-cms, just acquired some pieces of knowledge to create templates. Just wondering, how to create a portal page that has a few acticles in each different categories?

Please simply point out a practical way to do, no real code is needed.

Thank you.

Solution

As others have pointed out, the way to do this is by hooking your CMS page to another set of views. Django-CMS provides application hooks:

#cms_app.py
from cms.app_base import CMSApp
from cms.apphook_pool import apphook_pool

class YourModuleApp(CMSApp):
    name = 'My App MOdule'
    urls = ['my_app.urls']

apphook_pool.register(YourModuleApp)

So, if you had a module called "my_app" with a urls.py in it, Django-CMS will add those patterns to the page. Look in the "Advanced Settings" section of the page in admin for the application drop-down menu.

Once the app is hooked to the page, Django-CMS will pull any content and the layout template from the information it holds, then hand off processing to the additional URL patterns that are hooked to it. That's how you can pull in another model, add a form, handle a POST, etc.