How not to display Django foreign key object source in table - django

Question

I want to display date in table which is foreign key in this case and when I do this as result I see the date with information that it is object of different table. Which I don't want.
I would appreciate help with this.
class Factclaimcases(models.Model):
idfactclaimcase = models.IntegerField(db_column='IdFactClaimCase', primary_key=True) # Field name made lowercase.
idtechnican = models.ForeignKey(Dimtechnican, models.DO_NOTHING, db_column='IdTechnican') # Field name made lowercase.
thedate = models.ForeignKey(Dimdate, models.DO_NOTHING, db_column='TheDate') # Field name made lowercase.
description = models.CharField(db_column='Description', max_length=50) # Field name made lowercase.
manufacturedef = models.TextField(db_column='ManufactureDef', blank=True, null=True) # Field name made lowercase. This field type is a guess.
doc = models.BinaryField(db_column='Doc', blank=True, null=True) # Field name made lowercase.
<div class="container">
<table>
{% for item in query_results %}
<tr>
<td>{{ item.idfactclaimcase }}</td>
<td>{{ item.thedate }}</td>
<td>{{ item.description }}</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}
</table>
</div>
def index(request):
query_results = Factclaimcases.objects.all()
context = {
'query_results': query_results,
}
return render(request, 'index.html', context)
class Dimdate(models.Model):
thedate = models.DateField(db_column='TheDate', primary_key=True) # Field name made lowercase.
theday = models.IntegerField(db_column='TheDay', blank=True, null=True) # Field name made lowercase.
thedayname = models.CharField(db_column='TheDayName', max_length=30, blank=True, null=True) # Field name made lowercase.
theweek = models.IntegerField(db_column='TheWeek', blank=True, null=True) # Field name made lowercase.
theisoweek = models.IntegerField(db_column='TheISOWeek', blank=True, null=True) # Field name made lowercase.
thedayofweek = models.IntegerField(db_column='TheDayOfWeek', blank=True, null=True) # Field name made lowercase.
themonth = models.IntegerField(db_column='TheMonth', blank=True, null=True) # Field name made lowercase.
themonthname = models.CharField(db_column='TheMonthName', max_length=30, blank=True, null=True) # Field name made lowercase.
thequarter = models.IntegerField(db_column='TheQuarter', blank=True, null=True) # Field name made lowercase.
theyear = models.IntegerField(db_column='TheYear', blank=True, null=True) # Field name made lowercase.
thefirstofmonth = models.DateField(db_column='TheFirstOfMonth', blank=True, null=True) # Field name made lowercase.
thelastofyear = models.DateField(db_column='TheLastOfYear', blank=True, null=True) # Field name made lowercase.
thedayofyear = models.IntegerField(db_column='TheDayOfYear', blank=True, null=True) # Field name made lowercase.

Answer 1

You render it by accessing the field you want to render, so:
<div class="container">
<table>
{% for item in query_results %}
<tr>
<td>{{ item.idfactclaimcase }}</td>
<td>{{ item.thedate.thedate }}</td>
<td>{{ item.description }}</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}
</table>
</div>
You can use the |date template filter [Django-doc] to specify how to render the date, for example:
<div class="container">
<table>
{% for item in query_results %}
<tr>
<td>{{ item.idfactclaimcase }}</td>
<td>{{ item.thedate.thedate|date:"Y-m-d" }}</td>
<td>{{ item.description }}</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}
</table>
</div>
In your view, you can select the Dimdate columns in the same query with .select_related(…) [Django-doc]:
def index(request):
query_results = Factclaimcases.objects.select_related('thedate')
context = {
'query_results': query_results,
}
return render(request, 'index.html', context)