example for different types of users

[aniketmaithani]

Hey @jonathanchu I was thinking to include a more extensible example to support/show different types of users. E.g can be Account Manager, Employee and Blah blah user :P

[jonathanchu]

I think that's a great idea! How would you accomplish this? The reason why I made such a simple and barebones example was to make it easy for everyone to see how they could customize this to their liking, without needing to remove code that may be tied to anything else.

[aniketmaithani]

@jonathanchu I mean I am thinking of putting up a simple use case for instance, Different Login / Permission for different types of user. Say in a website there is a login for "USER" , "DEVELOPER" and "ADMIN (DJANGO ADMIN BASICALLY)". We can use this by extending the ABSTRACT USER MODEL which is a basic example in the Django documentation.

The reason I am interested in creating such thing is because I use these custom-user-model pretty extensively and frequently and I was hoping if one could just get a plug and play kind of stuff then it becomes easy to implement stuff.

[jonathanchu]

Sure, this sounds good to me! Want to take a stab at this? 😺

[aniketmaithani]

@jonathanchu yes sure. :)

[aniketmaithani]

Aah.. been long didn't take a look at this. Will try to complete this by weekend.

[jonathanchu]

@aniketmaithani don't feel bad or rushed for this, any time you devote is appreciated :)

[arpit1997]

@jonathanchu @aniketmaithani
I have some ideas about this issue. I ran into same kind of problem few weeks ago I tried two different approaches:

• If we have only two or three level of user then this problem is like a small piece of cake. We can just make django's builtin staff, admin other types and assign them permissions accordingly with our views.
• Other one is for many level users.This will be little tough. We have to create custom permission decorators to implement this. A decorator is a just a normal function but with some different syntax.
  • in case of assigning permissions we can use the method mentioned above .

Hope this helps. 😄