Thanks for the advice and the examples you gave. They were very helpful, and perhaps I may make a few changes in the database design before the site goes into production. The relationship I have is indeed many-to-many but could probably be expressed better like you suggested. However, I did manage to solve my problem. Your post caused me to look up a few things, and I learned what I was doing wrong.

In a many-to-many relationship, if you're trying to get a single value, you need to use first->, like so:

$page->chapter->first->num

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That does what I needed. Apparently Template Toolkit doesn't require that, as I haven't had to use first with it to do the same thing.

Again. Thanks for your help. :)

In reply to Re^2: Accessing many-to-many relationships in Catalyst by LunarCowgirl
in thread Accessing many-to-many relationships in Catalyst by LunarCowgirl

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