Re: Integrating User Profile with Auth

Thanks. I will keep this in mind. On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Justin Myers wrote: > Another idea would be to connect to User's post-save signal. You can > set it up to check whether the User instance being saved is just being > created, and if so, you can create its UserProfile instance a

Re: Integrating User Profile with Auth

Another idea would be to connect to User's post-save signal. You can set it up to check whether the User instance being saved is just being created, and if so, you can create its UserProfile instance at the same time. That'd make it so all future users have profiles as soon as they're created; once

Re: Integrating User Profile with Auth

I think that my main problem was that I was expecting the save to the model form to actually create the profile. Here's what I ended up with in my view. 86 @login_required 87 def createProfile(request): 88 UserProfile.objects.get_or_create(user=request.user)[0] 89 if request.method ==

Re: Integrating User Profile with Auth

Thanks. That helped me figure it out. I'll post my solution back later today/tonight. On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Shawn Milochik wrote: > I think you just may be missing a call to get_profile() in this view. > You can just do that and do a try block with an except block for > DoesNotExi

Re: Integrating User Profile with Auth

I think you just may be missing a call to get_profile() in this view. You can just do that and do a try block with an except block for DoesNotExist. That will let you know the situation you're in, whether the profile already existed or not. Also, unless I'm misreading something you're trying to pa