If Statement django template

[dtdave]

I have the following relationship in a model

class Contract(models.Model):

    supplier = models.ForeignKey(

        Supplier,
        on_delete=models.CASCADE,
        verbose_name="Supplier Name",
        related_name="contract_suppliers",
    )

I am trying to include an if statement in my template but the following does not work:

{% if contract.supplier == 'IBM' %}

If I replace this with a non-foreign key item then it works fine.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Peter Benjamin Ani]

why using a foreignkey then? what type of relationship is existing between the supplier and the 

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[Namanya Daniel]

Replace supplier with related_name

[Peter Benjamin Ani]

Have you figured out a solution to it?

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[Precious Olusola]

The supplier field in contract is an instance of a Supplier object which is not a string, so comparing it to a string won't work, instead compare a field of the supplier instance in the supplier field in contract instance.

Like: {% if contract.supplier.name == "IBM"%}

Do you get it?

[ASAMOAH EMMANUEL]

You can't compare the `contract.supplier` attribute directly to a string like 'IBM', because it is a foreign key to a `Supplier` model instance. Instead, you need to access the related `Supplier` model's attributes to compare them. For example, if the `Supplier` model has a `name` attribute, you can use:

{% if contract.supplier.name == 'IBM' %}

Alternatively, you could also use a `filter()` method on your `QuerySet` to filter the contracts by their supplier name before passing them to the template.

contracts = Contract.objects.filter(supplier__name='IBM')
Then you don't need to use the if statement in the template.

{% for contract in contracts %}

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