To be honest I don't really see why you would need multiple user profile models, instead of having one user profile model, and each entry would define a different user profile.
Of course I don't know the full details/requirementes of your project, and what exactly you are trying to do ... but I cannot think of a reason off the top of my head, why multiple user profile *models* would be really necessary. On Feb 20, 4:12 am, Gok Mop <gok...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 19, 6:39 pm, Andrew Ingram <a...@andrewingram.net> wrote: > > > Simplest solution : don't worry about the AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE setting. > > > I'm working on a site with numerous modules that contain user account > > information, such as orders and newsletter preferences. I just have a > > foreignkey to the auth User on each of these, eg: > > > class OrderAccount(models.Model): > > user = models.ForeignKey(User,related_name="order_account") > > > class NewsletterAccount(models.Model): > > user = models.ForeignKey(User,related_name="newsletter_account") > > Sounds like a good idea...thanks. > > > Then, when you're interacting with a user model you can get any of your > > account models with user.order_account or user.newsletter_account. > > This is the part that I'm not sure about though. So let's say I have > 4 objects that all take this same approach. (Call them foo, bar, baz, > and quux). Then one of my views gets a user object, and needs to > figure out which attached object is relevant. (There's only one > possibility). Does that mean that I have to do: > > myobj = user.foo_account > if myobj == None: myobj = user.bar_account > if myobj == None: myobj = user.baz_account > if myobj == None: myobj = user.quux_account > > ? > > In short, how do I tell which field I should be accessing? Only one > will be non-None. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
