Django Combine two templated from different apps

I have two apps with the following structure

project->
main app->
templates->
dashboard.html
my app->
templates->
mydashboard.html


I want to include mydashboard into dashboard, well this is possible using include template tag. but my problem appears when I have to pass some parameters into mydashboard, let's say they are named param1 and param2 these parameters are the variables which I have to load from my app app. well one possible method is to filling these params in dashboardview in mainapp and pass them using include tag into mydashboard.html like below

mydashboard

dashboard

mydashboard

param1

param2

my app

mainapp

include

mydashboard.html

def user_dashboard(request):
...-->here I have to get data from my app (this view is in main app and I do not want to make main app be dependent to my app
return render(request, 'dashboard.html', 'param1': 0, 'param2': 34)


then in dashboard.html I add this part

dashboard.html

% is_app_installed "myapp" as is_myapp_installed %
% if is_myapp_installed %
% include "myappdashboard.html" with param1=param1 param2=param2 %
% endif %


It seems the above method works but the main problem is that using this method mainapp is dependent to myapp and I do not want to this happens.
is there any other method to load those param1 and param2 inside myapp?
thanks

mainapp

myapp

myapp

my app

1 Answer
1

I can't see the details of the templates, but if you want to decouple the two templates I suggest you to rethink how you organise your templates logic. Try to rearrange the logic adding a base_dashboard.html in a common template dir with snippets and base templates to share between the apps.

base_dashboard.html

Then the myappdashboard.html and dashboard.html can extend it with % extend base_dashboard.html %.

myappdashboard.html

dashboard.html

% extend base_dashboard.html %

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