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Python

Mark Büsching
Mark Büsching
10,117 Points
Posted by Mark Büsching
Mark Büsching
10,117 Points

Showing a button if there is an Item with a specific attribute in jinja.

Hey guys. i've made a small todo-app in flask, that based on the flask community tutorials by Kenneth love. the jinja template gets passed an items variable, that's basically a models.Item.select(). a single item has the attribute is_done, which is true or false.

on the template, the items are visually divided by the attribute is_done. like this:

<div class="column">
    <div class="columns">
        <table class="table is-fullwidth">
            <tbody>
                {% for item in items if not item.is_done %}
                <tr>
                    <td>
                        <a href="{{ url_for('isdone', item=item.id) }}">{{ item.name }}</a>
                    </td>
                </tr>
                {% endfor %}
            </tbody>
        </table>
    </div>
</div>
<div class="columns">
    <div class="column">
        <a href="{{ url_for('cleardone') }}" class="button is-light pull-right">Leeren</a>
        <table class="table is-fullwidth">
            <tbody>
                {% for item in items if item.is_done %}
                <tr>
                    <td>
                        <a href="{{ url_for('isundone', item=item.id) }}" class="has-text-grey-lighter"><s>{{ item.name }}</s></a>
                    </td>
                </tr>
                {% endfor %}
            </tbody>
        </table>
    </div>
</div>

everything works fine. only one thing is bothering me. the <a href="{{ url_for('cleardone') }}" class="button is-light pull-right">Leeren</a> button should only appear, if there are actually any items with the attribute is_done=True.

my question is: is there a clever way in jinja to check, if there is any user in 'users' with the attribute is_done = True? or is it better to do this in flask itself and pass another value to the template?

regards