Question

I’d like to know what is the best way to store users’ preferences in Django.

Let’s say I have three choices users can select.

Based on their selection I want to customize certain templates.

Is it better to save each choice/preference as BooleanField() or as a tuple of choices?

Boolean:

subscription_newsletter = model.BooleanField()
subscription_posts = model.BooleanField()
subscription_promotions = model.BooleanField()

Tuple:

SUBSCRIPTION_CHOICES = (
    ("newsletter","Newsletter"),
    ("posts", "Posts"),
    ("promotions", "Promotions"),
)

Answer 1

It depends, whether you want them to be able to choose just one option (then tuples) or many (then booleans).