Issue With Using Query In Django

So what I'm trying to get is the following. User can choose 3 categories as seen in the code. Inside those categories they can add any number of plants. In my view: collection I wa

Solution 1:

Imho this causes the problem: You don't refer to the object/queryset correctly, so no data is being rendered frontend wise.

Your context contains the object plant_categories which should be looped accordingly:

<ul>
{% for category in plant_categories %}
    <h3>{{ category }}</h3>

    # Refer to object within context
    {% for name in plant_categories %}

        <li>{{ name.plant }}</li> # Depending on what you would like to render you have to adapt here

    {% endfor %}
{% empty %}
    <li>No category has been added yet.</li>        
{% endfor %}

You can add a print statement to your view to check the queryset:

def collection(request):
"""The page that opens the collection of plants"""
plant_categories = Plant_category.objects.all().order_by('category')


context = {
    'plant_categories': plant_categories,
}

# Print for debugging
print(plant_categories)

return render(request, 'plntz_main/collection.html', context)