Multiple User Roles design

[Frankline]

Hi all,

I am creating a project that will require two different user roles: An Instructor role and a Student role. Both will use a common login form. An Instructor can assign a Student to a Course. Both will have access to different parts of the system.

I wish to know the best way to model this. Currently I'm thinking of the following:

1) Use a single User model having a user_type field

2) Create Instructor and Student model that both inherit from base User model.

3) Create an Instructor and a Student group and then assign people to the correct group based on some value at the time of registration.

Is there a better way to handle this apart from the above? What are the best practices to follow in this case? Or perhaps add a UserProfile?

Regards,

Frankline

[Gergely Polonkai]

Hello,

if you create groups, you don’t have to create different models for different roles (well, unless you have different data to store for Students and Instructors). Just connect the correct User object with the correct Group.

Another method is to use the Permission handling system of Django, although it is a bit more complex.

Best,

Gergely

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[Filipe Ximenes]

You can try django-role-permissions, its an app that does exactly what you need. It's built on top of django's permissions system and requires no new models.

https://github.com/vintasoftware/django-role-permissions

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