Newly added fields not showing in Profile Edit for

Question

I want to extend the User model. I followed the steps mentioned in this doc. I made a new app extended_user whose models.py reads as :

from django.db import models

from oscar.apps.customer.abstract_models import AbstractUser
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _


class User(AbstractUser):

    nickname =  models.CharField(_("nick_name"), max_length=50, null=True, blank=True)

    def get_full_name(self):
        full_name = '%s %s' % (self.last_name.upper(), self.first_name)
        return full_name.strip()

In settings.py I mention

AUTH_USER_MODEL = "extended_user.User"

I make and run migrations. In profile view I can see nickname field but in Profile Edit view I don't. What do I have to do to see the newly added field in the Profile Edit form ?

Answer 1

I assume that you do not use a separate rofile class. In that case Oscar sets ProfileForm to point to the UserForm class.

That class in turn has a more-or-less hardcoded list of fields. (In reality it says "whichever fields exist out of this list".)

The easiest way to go forward from here is to override customer.forms.ProfileForm with your own class that uses your newly defined User model and the list of fields that better suits your usecase. (Create a your_app.customer.forms module and define a ProfileForm inside.)

Answer 2

1. python3 manage.py oscar_fork_app customer
2. add your app on your settings :

from oscar import get_core_apps

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.flatpages',
    'widget_tweaks',
    'YOUR_APP',
] + get_core_apps(['customer'])

3. The last part is to put this content of customer/forms.py:
   • it changes the Model with yours to access new added fields;
   • extends existing UserForm to keep all clean data;
   • change ProfileForm var as Oscar use it for render form of profile to point to your new form.

from oscar.apps.customer.forms import UserForm as CoreUserForm
from user.models import User
from django import forms

from oscar.core.compat import existing_user_fields

class UserForm(CoreUserForm):

    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = existing_user_fields(['username', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'email'])

ProfileForm = UserForm