I have added a status model that contains a list of statuses for the books. 'in progress','completed','published';

I have a list of the author's books in Author/view/show.tpl

Im having issues attaching the status of the book in the authors books list.

I used

{book.book_status.name} -- in Book/view.show.tpl but that does not work in the author view.

This works but cant do nothing with it book->book_status->getId();

What should i do????

Thank you for the reply suthern , but i figured it out what i did...
I added a function in the author_helper to extract the status of the book...
Sorry i just realized you replied to my post...