there’s an issue related to the custom user model

[lone spade]

The error message i am encountering, “Manager isn’t available; ‘auth.User’ has been swapped for ‘account.User’”,

i have created custom user model for account/models.py

when i go and submit signup form which i have created then the above mentioned error is shown to me.

https://github.com/pushkarcodes110/project_management/tree/main/account

project is uploaded latest as a repo, please do check the codes and revert back to me if you fins any potential errors... i have literally spent days on this thing and its frustrating now. Thanks

[shut onyx]

I see you have both from django.contrib.auth.models import User and from .models import User

[lone spade]

hi sir, i appreciate you noticed this. i have cleared the '''from .models import User''' , but still problem persists:(

i am heading back to this error :

Manager isn't available; 'auth.User' has been swapped for 'account.User'

and it specifically says error in this line of code :
user = User.objects.create_user(username=name, email=email, password=password1)

[ruby delta]

If you're using your own User, don't import it from django.contrib.auth.models 🙃

I would recommend using get_user_model() instead https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/topics/auth/customizing/#django.contrib.auth.get_user_model

[lone spade]

i read the article but i am unable to implement this, sorrry 😦

[lone spade]

yo, finally got the outcome as expected. got a help from chatgpt modifying the code with get_user_model()....

Thank you @ruby delta

[ruby delta]

Glad you got there. I hope you fully understand what ChatGPT gave you; there is nothing worse than AI-generated code in your codebase that you don’t know why it works