bit of pox code, to go through sub fields like author/publisher, and build readonly links to their edit pages, works. Need to add to books.html - which also only prints the first item - like author anyway

templates/book.html

@@ -10,17 +10,26 @@
 						<label for="{{key}}" class="col-lg-2 col-form-label">{{key}}:</label>
 						<div class="col-lg-10">
 						{% if books[key] is iterable and books[key] is not string %}
-							<table>
+							{% set cnt = namespace(idx=0, val=0) %}
 							{% for objects in books[key] %}
-								<tr>
+								{% set cnt.val = 0 %}
+								{% set str = namespace(val="") %}
+								<span class="form-control-plaintext" id="{{key}}">
 								{% for attr in objects %}
 									{% if attr != "id" %}
-										<td>
-										<input type="text" class="form-control input-lg" id="not-sure-{{key}}-{{attr}}" value="{{objects[attr]}}">
-										</td>
+										{% if cnt.val > 0 %}
+											{% set str.val=str.val+", "+objects[attr] %}
+										{% else %}
+											{% set str.val=str.val+objects[attr] %}
+										{% endif %}
+										{% set cnt.val = cnt.val + 1 %}
 									{% endif %}
 								{% endfor %}
-								</tr>
+								{% if key != "genre" %}
+								<a href="{{url_for(key, id=books[key][cnt.idx].id)}}">{{str.val}}</a>
+								{% endif %}
+								</span>
+								{% set cnt.idx = cnt.idx+1 %}
 							{% endfor %}
 							</table>
 						{% else %}