Hello Django Users Group!
As the title of the topic suggests, I am in the process of creating a
Facebook-Like Multiple Account functionality for a Django Social Media
Website.
With Facebook-Like, I mean that users of the Website will have the
opportunity to create multiple "Page Accounts" to interact with the
Website.
The idea is to fix the actual system and integrate a way to allow users to
switch to one page or another that they have created from a drop down menu
"Facebook style".
A bit of help in design choices would be extremely useful. I think I can
take care of all the code on my own, but some help from more experienced
developers in the design part would be extremely, extremely useful.
So far, the User Model is extended using a "Contributor" model, like so:
At the moment it is not possible for the same User Instance to have
multiple related accounts, so far a User can create and manage either a
'normal' contributor or a 'page' contributor.
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class Contributor(models.Model):
"""
A Contributor Instance Model.
Contributor is an extension of the User Model, the classical 'profile'
"""
user = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name="contributor")
gender = models.CharField(max_length=1, choices=GENDER_CHOICES,
default='F', verbose_name='sex')
birthdate = models.DateField(null=True, blank=True,
verbose_name='birthdate')
avatar = ImageField(upload_to='avatars', blank=True, null=True,
verbose_name='Profile Photo')
cover = ImageField(upload_to='copertine', blank=True, null=True,
verbose_name='Cover Photo')
location = models.CharField(max_length=512, null=True, blank=True,
verbose_name=u"City")
/* a bunch of other attributes */
is_a_page = models.BooleanField(default=False)
page_name = models.CharField(max_length=50, null=True, blank=True,
unique=True, verbose_name="Page Name")
kind_of_page = models.CharField(max_length=3, choices=PAGE_CHOICES,
default='B', verbose_name='Kind Of Page')
As you can see, a User registering to the Website can now decide whether
he/she wants to create a 'normal' contributor account or a contributor
'page' account.
Contrary to real Facebook style pages, there are no substantial differences
between what a 'normal' vs 'page' contributor can do.
The model is actually the very same one, the difference in fact is that a
bunch of db columns will stay empty depending of what the user chooses.
Considering that there are of course two distinct registration forms and so
that a part of the attributes is hidden depending on the choice, the first
idea to allow multiple accounts for the same user was to just add two
boolean flags to the model:
1) default_contributor # set to true if this is the first contributor
instance that has been created for a specific User Instance.
2) is_active # set to true only if this is the account
that the user is deciding to use for that specific session.
default_contributor = models.BooleanField(default=False) # first created
contributor
is_currently_active = models.BooleanField(default=False) # which
contributor is beign used currently by the user
The problem is that it is now vital to allow a user to create
MULTIPLE 'page' contributor accounts, and then switch from one to the other
from a drop down menu.
*Most importantly*: We all know deep in our hearts that that specific
Contributor
model is flawed by design, and should be fixed before it is too late.
So, now that the Social Media Website is still in it's very first alpha
stages, I still have the opportunity to make things a better.
The idea coming to
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