JSF :: Populating A Datatable From Onetomany Collection

I am having a hard time trying to wrap my head around trying to get a couple of columns in a datatable populated with values from a @OneToMany collection. The concept is simple but my brain refuses to grasp it!! I will try to make this brief...

I have several forms built with primefaces 3.5 using NetBeans 8 IDE on a JBoss EAP 6.21 server, and JPA 2.1 annotations. Data is extracted from an Oracle 11 database, which consists of several lookup tables, as well as a primary table and secondary table. Using the EntityManager createQuery method I query the database, which of course returns a resultset. The query grabs all records from the primary, as well as values from 2 specific columns of the secondary database, based on search criteria entered by the user on a primefaces search form. The returned results are then iterated through, this is where I am trying to get the values from the secondary table to populate specific fields in the datatable.Here is the applicable code from the list.xhtml form containing the datatable:

<p:dataTable id="datalist" value="#{foreignPartyController.returnedSearchResults}" var="item"
selectionMode="single" selection="#{foreignPartyController.selected}"
paginator="true"
rowKey="#{item.foreignPartyId}"
rows="30"
rowsPerPageTemplate="10,20,30,40,50"
sortOrder="ascending"
resizableColumns="true"
style="overflow: auto"

[code]....

As odd as the code may look (and I will completely understand anyone cringing as to some of the coding methods I use), specifically with the ui:repeat tags nested inside the datatable tag of the list.xhtml form, I strangely do see the values from the secondary table showing up in the form showing the results in a datatable. However, when the user clicks on a specific record in the returned resultset listed in the datatable, another form is opened and populated with the values from the datatable, but the 2 fields on that form that should be populated with the 2 values I referred to before from the secondary table (i.e. policy1Num and totalPayoutAmt) do not have the values in them.

This is partly because I have those 2 fields in the editable form pointing to the managed bean of the secondary table (code from that bean not shown here), rather than the same "polNum. policy1 Num" and "totPayout.totalPayoutAmt" var I am using in the list.xhtml form. How those values are being successfully returned into the datatable of the list.xhtml form - I happened to "stumble" across the use of the "polNum" and "totPayout" vars with the "policy Payment Collection" list. I do not know how to do the same thing for those 2 fields in the editable form.how a datatable gets populated, specifically with values in a @OneToMany collection,