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Django signal creates UserProfile from listening to User, but it's empty?
I'm new to Django and trying to create a signal that listens to a custom User model I've built. My intention is that when a new User is created, that a profile for them will also be automatically created.
To me it seems that my signal itself works,…

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What's the difference between get_user_model() and importing CustomUser model directly?
This is my views.py in a API server running Django REST framework.
from rest_framework import generics
from users.models import CustomUser
from .serializers import CustomUserSerializer
class APIView(generics.ListAPIView):
queryset =…

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Properly rename column name using display decorator in Django admin.py panel
I'm trying to rename the IS STAFF to STAFF STATUS here:
I'm just wondering if it's possible to rename it from admin.py & NOT use the verbose_name inside the model.
I wrote this code in admin.py:
@admin.register(User)
class…

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Query Django custom user model with many-to-many field
I'm very new at Django.
I have a custom user model:
accounts\models.py:
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser
from django.db import models
from tradestats.models import Webhook
class CustomUser(AbstractUser):
webhook =…

Laszlo
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How to create a serializer with multiple models, that are connected to each other?
So I have UserAccount model, which has this fields:
class UserAccount(AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin):
email = models.EmailField(max_length=255, unique=True)
iin = models.CharField(max_length=255, unique=True)
first_name =…

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Cannot login a normal user in a django website having a custom user model
I have made a Custom user model for my website. I have used AbstractBaseUser to make the model and also set it up at the settings. The creation of user and superuser is working fine without any problems and also a super user can login from the admin…

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calling create_superuser and create_user function in abstractuser in DRF
I have customuser model which inherits the Abstratuser from Django. However, I didn't understand the create_user and create_superuser. For eg when is the create_user function is called and when the create_superuser function is called.
The model…

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Please enter the correct Email and password for a staff account. Note that both fields may be case-sensitive
I complete makemigrations and migrate then create a superuser. After this
http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin i try to log in then show this error
Please enter the correct Email and password for a staff account. Note that both fields may be…

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Django Custom User Model migration return error : ValueError: Related model 'user_profile.customuser' cannot be resolved
I have modified the the user authentication to create a custom user.
In my user_profile model I log in with email instead of username. I have extended AbstractUserModel for this purpose and have implemented manager and serializer as mentioned…

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I am trying to create a login view that works for Customuser. Presently,the Loginform just redirects even when the fields are empty /incorrect input
I have allauth installed to handle the login yet, I don't seem to find a breakthrough with having a proper login as the redirect just takes everyone to the destination page without any authentication.. The signup works fine as I can see created…

Oprahjosh
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How do I run Django test using a CustomUser(AbstractUser) class instead of default AbstractUser for correct ForeignKey assignment during test?
I have a CustomUser model in 'accounts' app that overrides Django's default auth.User:
class CustomUser(AbstractUser):
age = PositiveIntegerField(null=True, blank=True)
user_type = CharField(max_length=8, null=False, choices=[('customer',…

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Custom user model: Please enter the correct email and password for a staff account. Note that both fields may be case-sensitive
I always get the message "Please enter the correct email and password for a staff account. Note that both fields may be case-sensitive." I write in settings.py AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'eCommerce.User'.
And after I run makemigrations and migrate command I…

Menna T-Allah Magdy
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CustomUser relation doesn't exist : Django migration error
I'm quite new to Django and ran into a problem while trying to create a custom user.
I followed all the steps outlined to create one, but because I initially started out with the default User model I deleted all my migrations and my postgres db to…

Julie Lenaerts
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Django Find custom user with the same value of JSONfield
I have a django application, where I use custom user model. Model has a JSONfield, which represents which programming languages do this user use.
It looks like this:
{"langs": [1, 2, 3, 4]}
These numbers are ID's of Language DB model.
So is it…

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Django registration profile
I am new in django. I would like to create registration profile. I found some code but it doesn´t work for me. When I want to makemigrations I always get this error AttributeError: Manager isn't available; 'auth.User' has been swapped for…

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