Django roles template tagΒΆ

django_roles template tag is a method to restrict access by role to content.

django_roles decorator, mixin, or middleware, restrict access to a view. In this way, restriction is applied to all content of the view. With django_roles template tag is possible to restrict access to content portions of a view.

django_roles template tag is used in Django templates.

Example for using Django roles template tag:

{% load roles_tags %}
...
{% if request.user|check_role:'reports_menu' %}
    restricted content
{% endif %}

If exist django_roles.models.TemplateAccess object with name reports_menu; only users in added django.contrib.auth.models.Group will see restricted content.

Note

django_roles template_tag require DjangoTemplate backend to be configured in settings file. If not, when trying to use it, an exception will be raised:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: No DjangoTemplates
backend is configured.