Filtering through whole way from template to CBV and back.

Using Django
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Guys, please, what is the best way to implement filtration. I mean is quite clear how to filter queryset in django view but whole process is not that clear. :thinking:
For example I need to dynamically filter my objects list by year and month, also I should use only years and months that related to the original full queryset (from oldest to newest) not any random year.
In django admin we have a quite cool ModelAdmin.date_hierarchy mechanism but I need it not in admin site! Can i use it in my own templates and views and how? :roll_eyes:
If I can not, how is the best way to do this? Should I use form and pass args through GET parameters? Or maybe use django forms would be better? Any thoughts? Please! :nerd_face:

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Take a look at django-filter which is for exactly this:

https://django-filter.readthedocs.io/en/main/

You define a FilterSet, using fields from your model at its most simple. You then pass it the request.GET data (the query parameters) and it handles both validation and filtering.

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Thanks, I’ll definitely dig in into django-filters. Perhaps this what i really need. I just thought that django has its own mechanism to stuff like this, but it seems not really ))) Thanks for your help!