[Fixed]-Initialize user django so he has default settings values

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Sounds like you want Django’s Signals, specifically post_save. You’ll want to create a Settings() for each User() that’s created – you have default values right now, but that only helps when you’ve saved the Settings model.

from django.db.models.signals import post_save
from django.dispatch import receiver
from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model

User = get_user_model()


@receiver(post_save, sender=User)
def create_settings(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
    # Only create a Settings relation if the User is new
    if created:
        settings = Settings(user=instance)
        settings.save()

If your Settings model is in an app called settings, then your settings/apps.py should have this – good StackOverflow answer on this:

from django.apps import AppConfig

class SettingsConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'settings'

    def ready(self):
        from . import signals

Now, whenever a new User is created, a Settings relation is created for them as well.

👤Jens Astrup

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I am not sure if this is what you want to achieve, but try this.

//admin.py
from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin

from accounts import models


admin.site.unregister(User)


class UserRoleInline(admin.StackedInline):
    model = models.UserRole

class UserRoleAdmin(UserAdmin):
    inlines = [UserRoleInline]

admin.site.register(User, UserRoleAdmin)


//model.py
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User


class RoleType(object):
    MANAGER = 'm'
    CANDIDATE = 'c'
    CHOICES = ((MANAGER, 'Manager'), (CANDIDATE, 'Candidate'))


class UserRole(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(User)
    role = models.CharField(max_length=1, choices=RoleType.CHOICES)

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Reference: django StackedInline

This will help you stack the setting models at end of User model. This won’t automatically take a default value, but will let you choose the settings as the user models is created.

👤Prashant Nair

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