Hello Karen, Here are my views and models:
http://dpaste.com/122204/ http://dpaste.com/122224/ The manytomany table is actually a tertiary table. I was just trying to use django terms, so people would understand what type of table. Thanks for your help! May On Feb 18, 11:33 am, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:43 PM, May <adles...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I need to get the institution name through an intermediary table (two > > foreign keys) to display in a template. > > > The code is here: > > >http://dpaste.com/122204/ > > > Thank you anyone, > > (Your subject line says manytomany but I don't see any evidence of > ManyToMany relations in the page you point to, there you just mention > ForeignKeys?) > > Your view passes in a results variable to your template where you have: > > {% for project in results %} > {{Project.contact|safe}} > {{Contact.institutionname|safe}} # the institutionname (isn't retrieving)... > {% endfor %} > > First, I don't see how the {{Project..}} bit can be working since you've got > a case mismatch on the leading 'p' between {% for project ... %} and {{ > Project...}} > > Second, {{ Contact...}} won't be resolving to anything because you don't > have any variable named Contact. Perhaps you want: > > {{ project.contact.institution }} > > or > > {{ project.contact.institution.institutionname }} > > it's a little hard to tell because you didn't actually include your model > definitions. If it's just following foreign keys to get to the field you > want, though, it's quite easy to do using the dot notation if you know the > right field names. > > Karen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
