Question

I have several notifications that can be sent out from my Django application for users. These users are managed with the django.contrib.auth app.

I need to keep track for each whether the user has specified he/she wants to get that notification.

Where should I save this information?

I was going to create my own custom table but I’ve seen perhaps I can save that information somewhere in the auth module?

Answer 1

User Profiles are a good way to go.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#storing-additional-information-about-users

Set up a model with a OneToOneField to your User object as described and you have easy access to an arbitrary table of extra information.

PS: Heed the note about the fact that profiles are not automatically created. There is an example about how to use a Signal to automatically create one whenever a User is created.