Question

I am trying to create an intranet/extranet with internal/external user-specific profiles, with a common generic profile. I’ve looked at several answers on this site, but none specifically address what I’m looking to do. Below are the (stripped down) files I have so far.

What’s the best way to create a profile model, with subprofiles for each user type? I’m trying not to require a custom authentication backend if at all possible.

https://gist.github.com/1196077

Answer 1

You need a combination of storing additional information about users and model inheritance.

Basically, you’ll need the generic User models we all know and either love or hate, and then you need a generic profile model that is your AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE setting.

That profile model will be a top-level model, with model subclasses for internal and extrernal users. You probably don’t want an abstract model in this case since you’ll need a common profile table to load user profiles from with User.get_profile().

So…I think the major thing you want to change is to make your Associate, External, etc. models inherit from your Profile model.