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| author | Thomas Güttler <hv@tbz-pariv.de> | 2015-04-01 13:16:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2015-04-06 19:49:46 -0400 |
| commit | 566c9362363f4b65cc64a35f907c2d6c39d0289e (patch) | |
| tree | 1a59fe8aeda503a0c114112ff61e3610394f3c2a /docs | |
| parent | 2cf58e80d1be46ae95f77c95fe014921742295dd (diff) | |
Added admonition about reusable apps and AUTH_USER_PROFILE.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/auth/customizing.txt | 8 |
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diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/customizing.txt b/docs/topics/auth/customizing.txt index 3833328cf2..e99443ff90 100644 --- a/docs/topics/auth/customizing.txt +++ b/docs/topics/auth/customizing.txt @@ -407,6 +407,14 @@ use as your User model. have a ForeignKey to each other and seeing how ``makemigrations`` resolves that circular dependency if you want to see how it's usually done) +.. admonition:: Reusable apps and ``AUTH_USER_MODEL`` + + Reusable apps shouldn't implement a custom user model. A project may use + many apps, and two reusable apps that implemented a custom user model + couldn't be used together. If you need to store per user information in your + app, use a :class:`~django.db.models.ForeignKey` or + :class:`~django.db.models.OneToOneField` to ``settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL`` + as described below. Referencing the User model -------------------------- |