How to access the user profile in a Django template?
Question:
I’m storing some additional per-user information using the AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE.
We can access the user in a Django template using {{ request.user }} but how do we access fields in the profile since the profile is only accessible via a function user.get_profile() ?
Is it really required to explicitly pass the profile into the template every time?
Answers:
Use {{ request.user.get_profile.whatever }}. Django’s templating language automatically calls things that are callable – in this case, the .get_profile() method.
Yes it is possible to access profile from template using
request.user.get_profile
However there is a small caveat: not all users will have profiles, which was in my case with admin users. So calling directly
{{ request.user.get_profile.whatever }} from the template will cause an error in such cases.
If you are sure all your users always have profiles it is safe to call from template, otherwise call get_profile() from within try-except block in your view and pass it to the template.
Not sure why it’s different for me, but I need to use {{user}} rather than {{request.user}}.
If you are using Django > 1.5 you can no longer use get_profile.
If you have a legacy app, you should remove AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = 'myapp.profile' from your settings.py.
If you use models.OneToOneField(User) in your Profile class, you can simply use
{{ request.user.profile.whatever }}
in your Django template
If it helps anyone, I used the followings in my template:
Username: {{ user.username }}
User Full name: {{ user.get_full_name }}
User Group: {{ user.groups.all.0 }}
Email: {{ user.email }}
Session Started at: {{ user.last_login }}
A sample result is like this:
User: auditor ezio
User Group: auditGroup
Username: testUser03
Email: [email protected]
Session Started at- April 16, 2018, 9:38 p.m.
Thanks 🙂
Working !
In your profile model provide related_name
user = models.OneToOneField(AUTH_USER_MODEL, related_name="user_profile", on_delete=models.CASCADE)
Then in template use. Here company_name is field in profile table
{{ request.user.user_profile.company_name }}
I’m storing some additional per-user information using the AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE.
We can access the user in a Django template using {{ request.user }} but how do we access fields in the profile since the profile is only accessible via a function user.get_profile() ?
Is it really required to explicitly pass the profile into the template every time?
Use {{ request.user.get_profile.whatever }}. Django’s templating language automatically calls things that are callable – in this case, the .get_profile() method.
Yes it is possible to access profile from template using
request.user.get_profile
However there is a small caveat: not all users will have profiles, which was in my case with admin users. So calling directly
{{ request.user.get_profile.whatever }} from the template will cause an error in such cases.
If you are sure all your users always have profiles it is safe to call from template, otherwise call get_profile() from within try-except block in your view and pass it to the template.
Not sure why it’s different for me, but I need to use {{user}} rather than {{request.user}}.
If you are using Django > 1.5 you can no longer use get_profile.
If you have a legacy app, you should remove AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = 'myapp.profile' from your settings.py.
If you use models.OneToOneField(User) in your Profile class, you can simply use
{{ request.user.profile.whatever }}
in your Django template
If it helps anyone, I used the followings in my template:
Username: {{ user.username }}
User Full name: {{ user.get_full_name }}
User Group: {{ user.groups.all.0 }}
Email: {{ user.email }}
Session Started at: {{ user.last_login }}
A sample result is like this:
User: auditor ezio
User Group: auditGroup
Username: testUser03
Email: [email protected]
Session Started at- April 16, 2018, 9:38 p.m.
Thanks 🙂
Working !
In your profile model provide related_name
user = models.OneToOneField(AUTH_USER_MODEL, related_name="user_profile", on_delete=models.CASCADE)
Then in template use. Here company_name is field in profile table
{{ request.user.user_profile.company_name }}