Question

Looking to make a generic view archive page by month and year.
Like this:

2011 - January March
2010 - October December

What I am getting:

2011 - January January
2010 - January January

Is this possible? Here are the views and templates.

view

def track_archive(request):
    return date_based.archive_index(
        request,
        date_field='date',
        queryset=Track.objects.all(),
  )
track_archive.__doc__ = date_based.archive_index.__doc__

template
{% for year in date_list %}
        <a href="{% url track_archive %}{{ year|date:"Y" }}/">{{ year|date:"Y" }}</a> archives:
        {% for month in date_list %}
            <a href="{% url track_archive %}{{ year|date:"Y" }}/{{ month|date:"b" }}/">{{ month|date:"F" }}</a>
        {% endfor %}
    {% endfor %}

Answer 1

According to the doc, archive_index only calculates the years. You might want to write the year/month grouping:

def track_archive(request):
   tracks = Track.objects.all()
   archive = {}

   date_field = 'date'

   years = tracks.dates(date_field, 'year')[::-1]
   for date_year in years:
       months = tracks.filter(date__year=date_year.year).dates(date_field, 'month')
       archive[date_year] = months

   archive = sorted(archive.items(), reverse=True)

   return date_based.archive_index(
        request,
        date_field=date_field,
        queryset=tracks,
        extra_context={'archive': archive},
   )

Your template:

{% for y, months in archive %}
<div>
  {{ y.year }} archives: 
  {% for m in months %}
    {{ m|date:"F" }}
  {% endfor %}
</div>
{% endfor %}

y and m are date objects, you should be able to extract any date format information to construct your urls.