[FIXED] Employee model Linked to Django User

Issue

I have the Django User model and I created Employee model as below

class Employee(models.Model):
         user        = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name='employees')
         title       = models.CharField(_('Title'), max_length=6, default='Mr', choices=TITLE, blank=False, null=True)
        firstname   = models.CharField(_('Firstname'), max_length=125, null=False, blank=False)

In my sidebar.html I can access the username as {{ request.user }} but I want to show the title and firstname from the Employee model on the sidebar.html

Solution

You are using ForeignKey to link Employee to User, so from User instance you can access a QuerySet of all related Employee objects (using related_name you provided). Like that:

{% for employee in request.user.employees.all %}
    {{ employee.title }} {{ employee.firstname }}
{% endfor %}

If you plan to have exactly one Employee object for one User object, it's better to use:

user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)

because then you can easily get Employee field values:

{{ request.user.employee.title }} {{ request.user.employee.firstname }}

Answered By - NixonSparrow