{"id":3173,"date":"2018-02-06T02:12:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T02:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.botreetechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2021-11-02T16:41:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T11:11:54","slug":"supporting-multiple-roles-using-djangos-user-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.botreetechnologies.com\/blog\/supporting-multiple-roles-using-djangos-user-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Multiple Roles Using Django’s User Model"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We often have multiple roles in our Django web applications<\/a>, and most of the time they have two common functionality of sign up and log in, others may completely vary based on the type of role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Django\u00a0provides a default User model which can handle sign up and log in functionality. However, for supporting multiple roles with common sign up or login functionality, the framework requires us to relate with the Django user model in a different way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creating a One-To-One Link<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us say we have two roles an Intern and an HR each having a distinct set of fields. We need to extend the User<\/i> model Django and create two separate models for Intern<\/i> and HR<\/i> each with one to one relationship with the extended User<\/i> model<\/p>\n\n\n\n