Get Django User group in HTML - html

Question

I am trying to get Django user's group in HTML for an if tag. This is what I tried:
{% ifequal user.groups.all.0 'ABC' %}
{% endif %}
But this is not working. What other way is there?

Answer 1

Try this:
{% for group in request.user.groups.all %}
{% if group.name == 'ABC' %}{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
Or
{% if request.user.groups.all.0.name == 'ABC' %}{% endif %}
You have to access the current user object from the request context variable. For this, make sure that django.template.context_processors.request is in your template settings.
request.user.groups.all.0 returns a Group model object, so you have to compare against the name field.

Answer 2

I think you will have to use a little Python here. For example, a custom template tag:
#register.filter(name='has_group')
def has_group(user, group_name):
return user.groups.filter(name=group_name).exists()
And in your template:
{% if request.user|has_group:"ABC" %}
...
{% endif %}
(Source: http://www.abidibo.net/blog/2014/05/22/check-if-user-belongs-group-django-templates/)
But maybe you should actually use permissions here.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/auth/default/#authentication-data-in-templates
Edit: Here is a more complete example of the custom template tag:
settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'yourapp',
...
]
Filesystem:
yourproject/
manage.py
yourproject/
settings.py
wsgi.py
...
yourapp/
__init__.py
templatetags/
__init__.py
yourapp_extras.py
...
yourapp_extras.py:
from django import template
register = template.Library()
#register.filter(name='has_group')
def has_group(user, group_name):
return user.groups.filter(name=group_name).exists()
Template:
{% load yourapp_extras %}
{% if request.user|has_group:"ABC" %}
...
{% endif %}
To get a more thorough understanding of this, I highly recommend reading Django's excellent documentation.

Answer 3

<h1>{{ user.groups.all.0 }}</h1>
{% if user.groups.all.0.name == 'Team2' %}
<h1>YES</h1>
{% else %}
<h1>NO</h1>
{% endif %}
Here, the user.groups.all.0 gives you the first group assigned to the user.
For eg. if the logged in user has groups assigned to him as- 'Team2', 'Programmer', 'Beginner'.
Then {{user.groups.all.0}} will print Team2.
I've used it to print and check the logged in user's group in html template.
OR
{% if request.user|has_group:"mygroup" %}
<h1>Has group mygroup</h1>
{% endif %}
Also works fine in django v1.11. This will check if the current user has 'mygroup' assigned to it or not.
However you'll need to add
from django import template
from django.contrib.auth.models import Group
register = template.Library()
#register.filter(name='has_group')
def has_group(user, group_name):
group = Group.objects.get(name=group_name)
return True if group in user.groups.all() else False
inside a group_check.py in below file structure
--app
|templates
|templatetags
|-- group_check.py