perhaps when you create-save the models (Providers, Customers etc.) it adds
that User to the appropriate group.
but I'm not sure I would use groups. That would make the most sense if
there were people with overlapping roles. somebody who is Agent + Provider
you could use the permissions system. again, also saving it to the User at
the time you create the Agent, Provider etc.
I have a form that creates a Person and optionally creates a User account at
the same time linked to it. you can also create a User (an account) later
for some person who is in the contact database. so I do that action in the
Form. its the form's responsibility (it represents/encapsulates the action
that the admin is taking)
I guess what you are asking is : how can you check on the template or in the
views what type of person the user is and show them certain things.
you can make use of the template tags that check for perms.
and some views are only accessible for certain types of peoples. for that,
using perms is good.
@permission_required("app.provider.can_view")
def view_func(request):
also this way you can give the staff or Agents perms that the plebs also
have.
you could also set a cookie/session var on login for is_a
that would be less db hits
-f;lix
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:39 PM, itsnotvalid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am going to help some people making a website that has a few admins,
> a crowd of service providers (individuals) and customers. There could
> be agents who invites people to become service providers or customers
> as well.
>
> Looking at the user system provided by django, and as a new programmer
> to django, I am not sure how can I separate different kinds of user
> here. I actually want to make it look like that different people login
> in different location, and do not share the same view after they
> logged in.
>
> So I am thinking a model schema like this:
>
> Users (as usual)
>
> Providers(link to a specific user, one-to-one)
>
> Customers(link to a specific user, many-to-one, as one user may find
> services for more that one actual person)
>
> Agents(link to a specific user, one-to-one)
>
> But how effectively can I separate their views? By defining different
> apps? Any other suggestions?
>
> >
>
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