I am working on a project where a User can be associated to either one profile or the other (individual || corporate). At a loss, I must confess.

This is what I have (on a file basis):

== settings.py

AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = 'profile.Profile'

== profile/models.py

class Profile(models.Model):
 user = models.OneToOneField(User)
 class Meta:
  abstract = True

class Individual(Profile):
 # specific fields
 class Meta:
  db_table = 'individual'

class Company(Profile):
 # specific fields
  class Meta:
  db_table = 'company'

Which creates two separate tables, both pointing at the auth_user table. Fine.

== forms.py
class IndividualForm(forms.ModelForm):
 model = IndividualProfile
 fields = () # list of fields to display

== views.py (for individuals only - same for companies)
userform = UserForm(data = request.POST)
profileform = IndividualForm(data = request.POST)
if userform.is_valid() and profileform.is_valid():
 [...]
 user.save()
 profile = user.get_profile()

Now the whole thing works – up to a point. Django throws the following:

  SiteProfileNotAvailable at /.../
  Unable to load the profile model, check AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE in your project settings

The user is created. The profile is too – but in both the profile tables (individual AND company).

Any idea?

Many thanks!

However, i cannot get the field “timezone” to appear when I am editing a CustomUser.

It will appear in the display_list fine.

But not in the edit page for a Custom User.

If i define a fieldset to include it eg:

    fieldsets = (
       (None, {'fields': ('username', 'password',)}),
       (('Personal info'), {'fields': ('first_name', 'last_name', 'email', 'timezone')}),
    )

It throws an error saying “invalid syntax” on the line where I have included “timezone”).

Any ideas?

I had made a custom user that logged in via email instead of username, and I had the login working fine for my own view that I controlled, but the admin site would not let me log in anymore. I assume it was because it was trying to use my custom authentication backend to try and log into the admin site, but that doesn’t make sense because it asks for a username and password, not a email and password like how my custom authentication backend worked.

Therefore, I had to add ‘django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend’ to the end of my AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS (under my custom backend) so that when my custom authentication failed, it would have the default django method to fall back on.

If any one has a more elegant solution to the problem I had, I’d be happy to hear it.

Add this near your CustomUser class in models.py:

def create_custom_user(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
	if created:
		new_user = CustomUser(user_ptr_id=instance.id)
		new_user.__dict__.update(instance.__dict__)
		new_user.save()
post_save.connect(create_custom_user, sender=User)

Whenever a user is created it will also create an entry in the CustomUser table of the database.

def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
    self.set_password(self.password)
    super(CustomUser, self).save(*args, **kwargs)

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/models/#overriding-model-methods

class PublicProfile(User):
    sex = models.CharField(max_length=100,choices=settings.SEX_CHOICES,
verbose_name='sex')
    phone_num = models.IntegerField(verbose_name='phone number')
    id_num = models.IntegerField(verbose_name='id number')
    age = models.DateField(verbose_name='date of birth')
    occupation = models.CharField(max_length= 20,
verbose_name='occupation')
    picture = models.ImageField(upload_to ='user_profile_images',
verbose_name='user photo')

    objects = UserManager()

but i can add users in the admin site.

Any ideas?

class Customer(User):
organization = models.CharField(max_length=80, unique = True)
address = models.CharField(max_length=80)
.
..
objects = UserManager()

If in the admin.py, model Customer is registered, on execution, we get the user creation form, with password after saving it, we exit from the module. We are able to see that the user exists in the django Auth, even if the Customer is not yet created. How do I override the save of the User class. Also I need to create other users for the application the normal way. Please suggest