this off topic, but i am saving these postings in my gmail. The problem with putting your code in dpaste is that in 29 days, that link is invalid, and when I look upon this thread in the future, I will have no idea what your source looks like and what the possible solutions are.
dpaste looks cool, but may be a bad idea to use here? On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:48 AM, May <adles...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The complete view is here: > > http://dpaste.com/122227/ > > On Feb 18, 11:46 am, May <adles...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
