On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:18 PM, adrian <adrian...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Given these models from the doc:
>
> class Publication(models.Model):
> title = models.CharField(max_length=30)
>
> class Article(models.Model):
> headline = models.CharField(max_length=100)
> publications = models.ManyToManyField(Publication)
>
> What do I need in the view and template to print an article and a list
> of all (or just one of) the publications it is in?
>
> I expected to be able to do something like:
>
> article = Article.objects.select_related().get(id=object_id)
>
> return render_to_response('detail.html', {
> 'article': article ,
> }
>
> and then in the template:
>
> Headline is: {{ article.headline }}<br>
> List of publications is appears in:
> {% for publication in article.publications %}
> {{ publication.title }}
> {% endfor %}
>
> But this always appears blank even when there is data in the fields.
> I think I have to do something special for the intermediate table but
> I don't see in the doc what that is?
>
> Thanks
> >
>
You need to use article.publications.all since a Manager(which is what
article.publications is) isn't iterable, just like you can't iterate over
Author.objects, you need to use all.
Alex
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