Django user.is_superuser not returning true in template if statement

Question

I'm trying to have information about an object show up if the user is a super user. Normally the information is hidden unless the object's public attribute is true. The object.public part works and {{user.is_superuser}} works as expected but {% if user.is_superuser %} does not.

<h1>Player Techniques</h1>
    <h2>{{user.is_superuser}}</h2>
    {% for object in techniques %}
        {% if user.is_superuser or object.public%}
            {% include "unlimited/technique.html" %}
        {% endif %}
    {% endfor %}

here are my settings

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        "BACKEND": "django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates",
        "DIRS": [],
        "APP_DIRS": True,
        "OPTIONS": {
            "context_processors": [
                "django.template.context_processors.debug",
                "django.template.context_processors.request",
                "django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
                "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages",
            ],
        },
    },
]

I have also tried request.user.is_superuser with the same results, correctly displaying True for superuser and False otherwise in the h2, but not passing the if.

@WillemVOsupportsmodstrike I found that I was filtering out non public objects in the view, thank you. — Myles Dalton, Jun 18 '23 at 06:56
well this is exactly what you *should* do. Filtering in the template is not a good idea for several reasons. — Willem Van Onsem, Jul 03 '23 at 09:36

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 14 '23 at 05:17

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Use {% if request.user.is_superuser == True %} Django templating engine doesn't work the same was as python

answered Jun 14 '23 at 05:17

Neeraj VB

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