Question

I have a template called client_details.html that displays user, note and datetime. Now sometimes, a client may not have an entry for user, note and datetime. What my program will do instead is display None if these fields are empty. I do not want the to display None. If a field has no value I don’t want to see any value e.g. let it be blank if possible instead of displaying None.

views.py

@login_required
def get_client(request, client_id = 0):
    client = None
    try:
        client = models.Client.objects.get(pk = client_id)
    except:
        pass
    return render_to_response('client_details.html', {'client':client}, context_instance = RequestContext(request))

template

{{client.datetime}}<br/> 
{{client.datetime.time}}<br/>  
{{client.user}}<br/>
{{client.note}}<br/>

Answer 1

you may use:

{% if client %} {{client.user}} {% else %}   {% endif %}

Checking with an if is enough, so you may not user else block if you want…