Re: Separation of apps

2009-05-05 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 06:48 -0700, eric.frederich wrote: > So the solution you recommend, "Have the foreign key point to the > auth.User model and then use person.get_profile() if you need to > access the profile object"... is that a "best practice" for dealing > with users and profiles? Never li

Re: Separation of apps

2009-05-05 Thread eric.frederich
So the solution you recommend, "Have the foreign key point to the auth.User model and then use person.get_profile() if you need to access the profile object"... is that a "best practice" for dealing with users and profiles? Never link directly to the profile and always to the user? On May 4, 4:3

Re: Separation of apps

2009-05-04 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 12:51 -0700, eric.frederich wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > You're right that auth.User is not a replacement for a profile. > Maybe I will make the training app require only that a profile model > exists and has a particular set of fields like cost-center, manager's > e-m

Re: Separation of apps

2009-05-04 Thread eric.frederich
Thanks for the reply. You're right that auth.User is not a replacement for a profile. Maybe I will make the training app require only that a profile model exists and has a particular set of fields like cost-center, manager's e-mail, etc. This way at least it wouldn't be tied to a particular imple

Re: Separation of apps

2009-05-04 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 11:35 -0700, eric.frederich wrote: > I wrote an app that consist of an authentication backend and a single > model "Profile" (extension of auth.User). It also has a function > which queries ldap to get user information like their manager. We'll > call this app my_custom_bac