Question

I would like to separate users into two different groups, employer or
employee, at signup. I’m using django-userena and for the employer group I’m thinking of using a clone of the same signup view except with a different url tied to it.

So whoever signs up at url(r’^signup/employer/$) will be added to the employer group with

new user = user.groups.add(Group.objects.get(name=employer))

added to the view. Is this the right approach?

Answer 1

Edited: form.save() returns the user just created. You have then to simply add it to your group. Your view should look something like:

form = signup_form() 
if request.method == 'POST': 
    form = signup_form(request.POST, request.FILES) 
    if form.is_valid(): 
        user = form.save()
        user.groups.add(Group.objects.get(name='employer'))

I would also consider using signals, if what you want to do is to add every user to your employer group. Something like this will add each newly created user to it, and will allow you to use the default signup view from userena:

# somewhere, in your models.py file
@receiver(post_save, sender=User, dispatch_uid='myproject.myapp.models.user_post_save_handler')
def user_post_save(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
    """ This method is executed whenever an user object is saved                                                                                     
    """
    if created:
        instance.groups.add(Group.objects.get(name='employer'))