This works fine – thank you very much, Stephen. (the import of ProfileForm is from mezzanine.accounts.forms, of course). It would be great if this sort of thing could be documented somewhere. Best wishes, Christian
On 5 February 2017 at 23:51, Stephen McDonald <st...@jupo.org> wrote: > Just spent some time looking into this - there's actually a setting > ACCOUNTS_PROFILE_FORM_CLASS (http://mezzanine.jupo.org/ > docs/configuration.html#accounts-profile-form-class) which allows you to > specify a custom form class for user profile signup/update. You could > override the save method of it and send an email via that, something like > (untested): > > # settings.py > > ACCOUNTS_PROFILE_FORM_CLASS = "myapp.forms.MyCustomProfileForm" > > # myapp.forms.py > > from mezzanine.account.forms import ProfileForm > > class MyCustomProfileForm(ProfileForm): > def save(self, *args, **kwargs): > user = super(MyCustomProfileForm, self).save(*args, **kwargs) > if self._signup: > # send email > return user > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Christian Hill <xn.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Unfortunately, I don't think this will work very reliably: the time of >> update and time of creation will be a little bit different, so I can't >> check for strict equality, but the two UserProfile save events occur close >> together, so I can't choose a reliable timedelta to ascertain whether the >> instance is begin saved the first time or the second time. For example, the >> output from >> >> def email_admins_on_new_signup(sender, instance, **kwargs): >> print('created:', instance.profile_created) >> print('updated:', instance.profile_updated) >> >> is: >> >> created: 2017-02-02 10:53:51.575074+00:00 >> updated: 2017-02-02 10:53:51.575115+00:00 >> created: 2017-02-02 10:53:51.575074+00:00 >> updated: 2017-02-02 10:53:51.578555+00:00 >> >> A workaround is: >> if not kwargs['created'] and instance.profile_updated - >> instance.profile_created < timedelta(seconds=5): >> # Only send an email if a new UserProfile was created. >> send_signup_alert_email_to_admins(instance) >> >> – i.e. only send the email if the instance save is after initial >> creation, but within 5 seconds of it, but that feels awfully hacky and I'd >> love a better solution. >> >> >> On 2 February 2017 at 03:08, Melvyn Sopacua <m.r.sopa...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday 01 February 2017 07:02:30 Christian Hill wrote: >>> >>> > And I don't want >>> >>> > the email sent if the user is simply editing their profile. >>> >>> > Would I be better off customizing the accounts app? >>> >>> >>> >>> Add two fields to your profile: >>> >>> - profile_created: DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) >>> - profile_updated: DateTimeField(auto_now=True) >>> >>> If they're equal, you send mail. >>> >>> >>> >>> > >>> >>> > On 1 February 2017 at 00:27, Stephen McDonald <st...@jupo.org> wrote: >>> >>> > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Christian Hill <xn.h...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > >> Presumably UserProfile is saved twice and I'm only picking up the >>> >>> > >> first time, after it's been attached to a user but before the >>> >>> > >> extra data is attached to it. >>> >>> > > >>> >>> > > If that's true, then the signal handler would run each time, which >>> >>> > > means you could then modify it to check for the expected data >>> >>> > > (affiliation) and only send the email then. >>> >>> > > >>> >>> > > >>> >>> > > -- >>> >>> > > Stephen McDonald >>> >>> > > http://jupo.org >>> >>> > > >>> >>> > > -- >>> >>> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> >>> > > Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. >>> >>> > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>> >>> > > send an email to mezzanine-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> >>> > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Melvyn Sopacua >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to mezzanine-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> My book, Learning Scientific Programming with Python is published by CUP >> <http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/physics/computational-science-and-modelling/learning-scientific-programming-python?format=PB> >> scipython.com: | @scipython3 <https://twitter.com/scipython3> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Mezzanine Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to mezzanine-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Stephen McDonald > http://jupo.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Mezzanine Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to mezzanine-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- My book, Learning Scientific Programming with Python is published by CUP <http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/physics/computational-science-and-modelling/learning-scientific-programming-python?format=PB> scipython.com: | @scipython3 <https://twitter.com/scipython3> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. 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