It sounds like you're trying to access the user as an attribute rather than a key in your tag renderer. Make sure you're using the syntax context['user'] as opposed to context.user.
- Robin On 4/29/07, Marco Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > Scenario: I want to build a main menu with several entries. Some of the > entries should only be displayed if the user is logged in (profile, > settings), some only if it's an anonymous user (register, log in) and > some entries should be always visible (home, ...). > > I tried it several ways now, but I just don't get it. The only way I > found working is to do everything in the views.py and pass a dict with > the menu entries to my template. As the menu is something that is > displayed on every single page, there must be a better way to do this. > > So far, I tried to code an own template tag, an inclusion_tag and much > more to automate this for every page, but I always fail as I cannot get > access to the current user object in the custom template tag code. It > always tells me that the RequestContext object does not have a user > attribute: > > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/template/__init__.py", > line 733, in render_node > raise wrapped > > TemplateSyntaxError: Caught an exception while rendering: 'RequestContext' > object has no attribute 'user' > > Original Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/template/__init__.py", > line 723, in render_node > result = node.render(context) > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/template/__init__.py", > line 883, in render > dict = func(*args) > File "/www/mysite/dj_proj/lib/templatetags/Menus.py", line 41, in > top_menu_tag > if context.user.is_authenticated(): > AttributeError: 'RequestContext' object has no attribute 'user' > > > Could somebody point me somewhere, just to get an idea how to solve this > or, even better, how to to such dynamic menus based on user objects? > > TIA. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
