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Check permission inside a template in Django

Can I use the Auth application's permission checking inside a template in Django? (I want to display a simple form at the end of the template for privileged users)

And more importantly, should I do it at all or is this no the "Django way"?

Solution

  • If you are looking to check for permissions in templates, the following code would suffice:

    {% if perms.app_label.can_do_something %}
<form here>
{% endif %}

    Where model refers to the model that the user need permissions to see the form for.

    Refer to https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/topics/auth/default/#permissions for more examples.

    The currently logged-in user's permissions are stored in the template variable {{ perms }}

    (This requires the following context processor to be enabled: django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth)