Re: Extending the user model and accessing fields in template context

2017-06-07 Thread Bernd Wechner
Why thank you Melvyn, nailed it one. I had assumed there was a profile connected but alas it was not set ... once I set it, the template access through the dot notation to the profile works fine. It is the silent exception being ignored that threw me guess. Arguably appropriate response to a l

Re: Extending the user model and accessing fields in template context

2017-06-07 Thread Melvyn Sopacua
On Thursday 08 June 2017 08:46:38 Bernd Wechner wrote: > Have failed to find an easy answer to this so will lazily ask the > broader community before I retire tonight ;-). > > I have a model that I use to extend the User model like yo: > > from django.contrib.auth.models import User > >