Employee model details not showing in navbar in django template-CodePudding

I have an issue showing my Employee name and picture in navbar.html

I have a CustomUser model from accounts app structure as below

core
  |_accounts
     |_models.py (CustomUser is in here)
  |
  |_employees
    |_models.py (Employee model in here)

My CustomUser is as below

class CustomUser(AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin):
    email       = models.EmailField(_('email address'), unique=True)
    is_staff    = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    is_active   = models.BooleanField(default=True)
    date_joined = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)

    USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'
    REQUIRED_FIELDS = []

    objects = CustomUserManager()

    def __str__(self):
        return self.email

and my employee model is

class Employee(models.Model):
    # PERSONAL DATA
    user        = models.ForeignKey(User,on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name="employees")
    title       = models.CharField(_('Title'), max_length=10, default='Mr', choices=TITLE, blank=False, null=True)
    image       = models.ImageField(_('Profile Image'), upload_to='avatars/', blank=True, null=True, help_text='upload image < 2.0MB')#work on path username-date/image
    firstname   = models.CharField(_('Firstname'), max_length=125, null=False, blank=False)
    lastname    = models.CharField(_('Lastname'), max_length=125, null=False, blank=False)

In my navbar template I have

<img alt="image" src="{{ request.user.employees.image.url }}" >

and

<div >Hello {{ request.user.firstname }}</div>

My template is not showing the desired results

CodePudding user response：

First of all, your user field should be related to the CustomUser, not the User class. In addition, request.user will give you an instance of your AUTH_USER_MODEL setting in settings.py, which in your case is an instance of the CustomUser model, which instance does not have a firstname fields.

AbstractBaseUser does not come with a first_name, last_name fields, instead, you can switch your inheritance to an AbstractUser and then your CustomUser class would automatically inherit first_name and last_name.

Or as @Ankit suggested you can get the Employee first name by doing request.user.employee.firstname

Keep in mind, that your relationship should be OneToOne as @Iain suggested.