Django many to many field data rendering - html

Question

I wanted to create a blog site where an author and editor can both have the edit option and the editors will be assigned by author. Now my model field looks like this :
class Editor(models.Model):
name = models.OneToOneField(Author, on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True, blank=True)
class Blog(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=150, null=True, blank=True)
author = models.ForeignKey(Author, on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True, blank=True)
editor = models.ManyToManyField(Editor, blank=True)
date_created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
article = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True)
genre = models.ManyToManyField(Genre, blank=True)
def __str__(self):
return self.title
and views.py :
def blog(request, pk):
if request.user.is_authenticated:
blogs = Blog.objects.get(id=pk) //for dynamic url
editors = Editor.objects.all()
context = {'blogs':blogs,'editors':editors}
return render(request, 'blog/blog.html', context)
then I wanted to check if the person who is accessing if author or editor or not, so I written an if condition :
{% if request.user.author == blogs.author or blogs.editor %}
Edit
{% endif %}
but unfortunately the edit button can be accessed by everyone. what should I do?

Answer 1

First of all.
{% if request.user.author == blogs.author or blogs.editor %}
Edit
{% endif %}
In this piece of code, the condition is not very good defined. My suggestion is that you make this in this way:
{% if request.user.author == blogs.author or request.user.author == blogs.editor %}
Edit
{% endif %}
This is one suggestion.
Now another posibility is to use JavaScript.
In order to do that, I give you some code example of my own.
<script type="text/javascript">
var editor = '{{user.author.editor}}'
if (editor == 'False'){
document.getElementById('edit').innerHTML = ''
}
</script>
In this code, I'm defining that if the user is not a editor, I will not hide the element (In html) with id 'edit'. So in your template, set an id to your element.
<a id="edit" href="#" class="btn btn-warning">Edit</a>
For this, you will have to set a boolean field in your model.
You can do it like this:
class Editor(models.Model):
name = models.OneToOneField(Author, on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True, blank=True)
editor = models.Boolean()