Question

Hello I am trying to display work orders from my mysql database to show up in an email. However There is a problem because work_orders is a part of my Class Invoice manytomany field. This gives me this error.

'ManyRelatedManager' object has no attribute 'description'

I not really sure what the problem is. Here are some part of my app that could be helpful.

#views.py
@login_required
def invoice_mail(request, id=1):
    invoices_list = Invoice.objects.filter(pk=id)
    invoice = get_object_or_404(Invoice, pk=id)
    client = invoices_list[0].client
    invoice_no = invoices_list[0].invoice_no
    date = invoices_list[0].date
    work_orders = invoices_list[0].work_orders
    t = loader.get_template('registration/email.txt')
    c = Context({
    'client': client.company,
    'address':client.address,
    'city': client.city,
    'postcode': client.postcode,
    'email': client.email,
    'date': date,
    'invoice_no': invoice_no,
    'work_orders': work_orders.description,
    })
    send_mail('Welcome to My Project', t.render(c), '[e-mail]', ['[e-mail]'], fail_silently=False)
    return render_to_response('sent_email.html', locals(), context_instance=RequestContext(request))


email.txt

INVOICE


Bill to:                            INVOICE # {{invoice_no}}
{{client}}                          DATE: {{date}}
{{address}}
{{city}}
{{postcode}}
{{email}}

quantity item Description
              {{work_orders.description}}

Answer 1

Unless you added a description field to the manager, the attribute doesn’t exist (as it says).
Maybe you want to use

for order in work_orders.all():
    print order.description

or in a template

{% for order in work_orders.all }}
    {{ order.description }}
{% endfor %}

And maybe you need to change it in the context

'work_orders': work_orders