I'm having a small issue with my permissions in my Django template.
I'm trying to, based on permissions, show an icon in the menu bar for my project. I want to have it so that if the user has the permissions to add a new follow-up to the project, they can see the icon, if they don't have that permission, then do not display the link.
My permission syntax is follow.add_followup
, which I got from printing user.get_all_permissions()
.
I have tried this code in my template:
...
{% if user.has_perm('followup.add_followup') %}
<li><a href="{% url followup-new p.id %}">Log</a></li>
{% endif %}
...
But when I display the template, I am presented with this error:
TemplateSyntaxError at /project/232/view/
Could not parse the remainder: '(followup.add_followup)' from 'user.has_perm(followup.add_followup)'
Any thoughts? This has been giving me a headache! :)
Since you are using the Django permission system, it's better you use the followingg template syntax...
{%if perms.followup.add_followup%}your URL here{%endif%}
EDIT: Django automatically creates 3 permissions for each model, 'add', 'change' and 'delete'. If there exists no model for adding a link, then you must add the permission from related model, in the model class Meta... Likewise:
somemodels.py
class SomeModel(Model):
...
class Meta:
permissions = (('add_followup','Can see add urls'),(...))
In the Django auth user admin page, you can see your permission. In the template layer, permission is presented with the basic Django style,
<app_label>.<codename>
which, in this case, will be like:
{%if perms.somemodels.add_followup%}your URL here{%endif%}
If there is no model, related to the job you wish to do, the add the permission to a model...
In your template, you can write
{{perms.somemodels}}
to seal available permissions to that user, where somemodel
is the name of the applicaton that you add your permission to one of its models.