Question
Asked By – aircraft
In my Django project I have a user_manage
app.
I create a model named UserManage
in my user_manage
app’s model.py:
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser
class UserManage(AbstractUser):
username = models.CharField(max_length=12)
Then I run:
$ python3 manage.py makemigrations
There comes the error:
ERRORS:
auth.User.groups: (fields.E304) Reverse accessor for 'User.groups' clashes with reverse accessor for 'UserManage.groups'.
HINT: Add or change a related_name argument to the definition for 'User.groups' or 'UserManage.groups'.
auth.User.user_permissions: (fields.E304) Reverse accessor for 'User.user_permissions' clashes with reverse accessor for 'UserManage.user_permissions'.
HINT: Add or change a related_name argument to the definition for 'User.user_permissions' or 'UserManage.user_permissions'.
users_management.UserManage.groups: (fields.E304) Reverse accessor for 'UserManage.groups' clashes with reverse accessor for 'User.groups'.
HINT: Add or change a related_name argument to the definition for 'UserManage.groups' or 'User.groups'.
users_management.UserManage.user_permissions: (fields.E304) Reverse accessor for 'UserManage.user_permissions' clashes with reverse accessor for 'User.user_permissions'.
HINT: Add or change a related_name argument to the definition for 'UserManage.user_permissions' or 'User.user_permissions'.
Now we will see solution for issue: auth.User.groups: (fields.E304) Reverse accessor for ‘User.groups’ clashes with reverse accessor for ‘UserManage.groups’
Answer
Add the following to settings.py
:
AUTH_USER_MODEL = "users_management.UserManage"
More generally,
AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'YourAppName.YourClassName'
- YourAppName: This is the name of the app that will have the User Model
- YourClassName: This is the name of the class used inside the models.py file
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