Custom User

[Kushal Neupane]

I am trying to build a resturant management system. I made a super user. Now, i am trying to make cashier and finance users which must be assign by the super admin. Can i do it?

[Antje Kazimiers]

Hi Kushal,

Since the out-of-the box User model is coming from the auth module, you can hardly extend this class. To store additional information for different types of Users, you could create a custom UserProfile model, which has a Foreign Key to the User model:


from django.db import models
...

class UserProfile(models.Model):
    class Meta:
        verbose_name_plural = "User Profiles"

    user = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='user_profile', unique=True)
    user_type = models.CharField(max_length=1, choices=USER_TYPE, default='h')

You could also write your own custom User Model with a user type field and use that one instead of the built-in one:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/topics/auth/customizing/#substituting-a-custom-user-model


But what you describe almost sounds like you want to make use of the permissions and groups, which are built into the django admin interface as well, so I would read through this:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/auth/default/#permissions-and-authorization


Antje

On 3/5/20 8:19 AM, Kushal Neupane wrote:

I am trying to build a resturant management system. I made a super user. Now, i am trying to make cashier and finance users which must be assign by the super admin. Can i do it?

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