extending a custom user (AbstractBaseUser) and displaying in admin

[Elic]

Hi,

Hope you are all doing well.

I had to change the User object to support several use-cases in my system.

I have created a custom User object that extends AbstractBaseUser.This object only has email, password, last_login and the permissions (is_stuff, is_superuser). I also created UserManager for it.

If I go to the /admin I can create new users and it works well.

However, I have to extends this user, to allow different kind of users:

1. Company 

2. Employee

In both cases I hold a onetoone User object reference:

class Employee(models.Model):

    user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name='+')

I read documentation and found places that describe how to add inline nesting in the admin UI, however, in all the scenarios I saw it shows that the inline is done on the User object which then adds part for an Employee.

However, this is not what I want. I would like to enable creating a user via /admin only when creating a Company or Employee.

For Example when I want to create an Employee I will have the following fields:

- email

- password

(these 2 come from the User)

- name

- birthday

(these are coming from the Employee)

Is it possible to achieve?

Thank you,

Elic

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[Motaz Hejaze]

One way around is to make the models Employee and Company to inheret from User in models.py

class Employee(User):

 ...

class Company(User):

 ...

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[Elico]

Hi Motaz,

Thank you for your response. 

I didn’t try that yet, however my assumption is that I would have duplicates of fields inherited from the User class. 

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