[Answer]-Django AutoSlugField across inherited models

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OK so after digging through the source code it turns out the docs have updated since I lasted looked.

So, if you add objects = models.Manager() to your BaseModel and pass that to the AutoSlugField. This will check the slug against BaseModel rather than the sub class.

class BaseModel(models.Model):
    objects = models.Manager()
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    slug = AutoSlugField(populate_from='name', unique=True, db_index=True, managers=objects)
    # ... other fields
👤rockingskier

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In database you have only one slug field in BaseModel table, HamsterModel and ElderberryModel are connected to BaseModel using foreign key. The only way I see in this situation is remove unique=True and check uniqueness at model level in save method.

👤sneawo

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