DjangoContextActions 0.0.7

Simply add context related links to your Django views.

Django Context-Actions

Quickly link to other pages of your django application.

Features

• Simple definition of links to other pages
• Static or dynamic definition of ContextActions
• Filters out links to views that the user is not allowed to access
• Automatically uses the most recent next parameter of GET queries

Setup

from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
from django.views.generic import TemplateView

from contextactions.contextactions import ContextAction
from contextactions.mixins import ContextActionsMixin


class MyView(
    ContextActionsMixin,
    TemplateView,
):
    context_actions = [
        ContextAction(
            name='my_app:my_view',
            label=_('my human readable translated link text'),
        ),
    ]
    template_name = 'my_template.html'

In your template include the provided context actions template…

{% include 'contextactions/contextactions.html' %}

or implement you own using view.get_context_actions

{% for action in view.get_context_actions %}
    <a href="{% if action.url %}{{ action.url }}{% else %}{% url action.name %}{% endif %}">{% if action.label %}{{ action.label }}{% else %}{{ action.url }}{% endif %}</a>
{% endfor %}