How to access outermost forloop.counter with nested for loops in Django templates

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Is it possible to access the forloop.counter for the outermost for loop in the following template in Django:

{% for outerItem in outerItems %}
    {% for item in items%}
        <div>{{ forloop.counter }}.&nbsp;{{ item }}</div>
    {% endfor %}
{% endfor %}

forloop.counter returns the innermost for loop's counter in the above example

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You can use forloop.parentloop to get to the outer forloop, so in your case {{forloop.parentloop.counter}}.

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Here's how:

Make a context_processors.py file in your app directory. Let's say I want to have the ADMIN_PREFIX_VALUE value in every context:

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```
from django.shortcuts import render

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```

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...
<a href="{{ ADMIN_MEDIA_URL }}">path to admin media</a>
...

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