Conditionally display a Fieldset with Crispy Forms

Question

I want to do something simple while using Crispy Forms; I want show a Fieldset only if the user belongs to the staff group. This is easily solved in a standard templates like th

Answer 1

You can pass the request context to your form from the view, and then use this in your form helper. Something like this:

In the view function that creates the form:

form = MyForm(request.POST, user=getattr(request, 'user', None))

Then in your form's __init__ method:

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    self.user = kwargs.pop('user', None)
    super(MyForm, self).__init__(args, kwargs)

And finally in your form layout code:

if user and user.is_staff:
    self.helper.layout.append(Fieldset(
        'Conditional Fieldset',
        'field1',
        'field2',
    ),

I've just appended this fieldset to the end of the layout. The documentation gives you other options for updating layouts on the fly.