Re: Managing multiple user types in Django

2018-05-20 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 20/05/2018 1:45 PM, Daniel Germano Travieso wrote: There is no really definitive approach to handle this, and you could do it either way. Either option works, but for a philosofical point of view, if there is no significant difference between the user types, the first approach I tend to beli

Re: Managing multiple user types in Django

2018-05-19 Thread Daniel Germano Travieso
There is no really definitive approach to handle this, and you could do it either way. Either option works, but for a philosofical point of view, if there is no significant difference between the user types, the first approach I tend to believe is the most logical one. However, as a optimal ap

Re: Managing multiple user types in Django

2018-05-16 Thread Bill Torcaso
I inherited a system which has one User model, and a Profile model that is 1-to-1 with User. The type-of-user information is carried in a required "role" property in the Profile. I think that is a well-established approach. I am curious to hear what people think of the tradeoffs between (Use

Re: Managing multiple user types in Django

2018-05-15 Thread Vijay Khemlani
I would make a UserType table and have a foreign key from your user model to it, or maybe just have an enumerated type in your user model depending on how much custom logic there is to each user type. On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:50 AM Frankline wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am developing an API