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 %}