==================== django-organizations ==================== .. start-table .. list-table:: :stub-columns: 1 * - Summary - Groups and multi-user account management * - Author - Ben Lopatin (https://www.benlopatin.com) * - Status - |docs| |version| |wheel| |supported-versions| |supported-implementations| .. |docs| image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/django-organizations/badge/?style=flat :target: https://readthedocs.org/projects/django-organizations :alt: Documentation Status .. |version| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/django-organizations.svg?style=flat :alt: PyPI Package latest release :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-organizations .. |wheel| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/wheel/django-organizations.svg?style=flat :alt: PyPI Wheel :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-organizations .. |supported-versions| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/django-organizations.svg?style=flat :alt: Supported versions :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-organizations .. |supported-implementations| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/implementation/django-organizations.svg?style=flat :alt: Supported implementations :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-organizations .. end-table Separate individual **user identity** from **accounts, subscriptions, etc.**. Django Organizations adds user-managed, multi-user groups to your Django project. Use Django Organizations whether your site needs organizations that function like social groups or multi-user account objects to provide account and subscription functionality beyond the individual user. * Works with your existing user model, whether `django.contrib.auth` or a custom model. No additional user or authentication functionality required. * Users can be belong to and own more than one organization (account, group) * Invitation and registration functionality works out of the box for many situations and can be extended as need to fit specific requirements. * Start with the base models or use your own for greater customization. Documentation is on `Read the Docs `_ Project goals ============= django-organizations should be backend agnostic: 1. Authentication agnostic 2. Registration agnostic 3. Invitation agnostic 4. User messaging agnostic Etc. Development & Contributing ========================== The basic functionality should not need much extending. Current dev priorities for me and contributors should include: * Improving the tests and test coverage * Improving the backends and backends concept so that additional invitation and registration backends can be used * Documentation * Ensuring all application text is translatable Please use the project's issues tracker to report bugs, doc updates, or other requests/suggestions. Targets & testing ----------------- The codebase is targeted and tested against: * Django 5.2.x against Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14 * Django 6.0.x against Python 3.12, 3.13, 3.14 To run the tests against all target environments, install `tox `_ and then execute the command:: tox or with the project's `just `_ recipe:: just test-all Fast testing ------------ Testing each change on all the environments takes some time, you may want to test faster and avoid slowing down development by using pytest against your current environment. Set up a development environment with `uv `_ and run the tests:: uv sync uv run pytest or equivalently:: just install just test Supply the ``-x`` option for **failfast** mode:: uv run pytest -x Submitting ---------- These submission guidelines will make it more likely your submissions will be reviewed and make it into the project: * Ensure they match the project goals and are sufficiently generalized * Please try to follow `Django coding style `_. The code base style isn't all up to par, but I'd like it to move in that direction * Also please try to include `good commit log messages `_. * Pull requests should include an amount of code and commits that are reasonable to review, are **logically grouped**, and based off clean feature branches. Code contributions are expected to pass in all target environments, and pull requests should be made from branches with passing builds on `GitHub Actions `_. Installing ========== First add the application to your Python path. The easiest way is to use `pip`:: pip install django-organizations Check the `Release History tab `_ on the PyPI package page for pre-release versions. These can be downloaded by specifying the version. By default you will need to install `django-extensions` or comparable libraries if you plan on adding Django Organizations as an installed app to your Django project. See below on configuring. Upgrading --------- Upgrading django-organizations is expected to be a low-impact operation. See the Upgrading section in the Getting Started docs for additional considerations. Configuring ----------- The simplest way to get *started* using Django Organizations is to install the app and use the "concrete" models. Make sure you have `django.contrib.auth` installed, and add the `organizations` application to your `INSTALLED_APPS` list: .. code-block:: python INSTALLED_APPS = ( ... 'django.contrib.auth', 'organizations', ) Then update your project URLs config. You should hook in the main application URL conf as well as your chosen invitation backend URLs: .. code-block:: python from organizations.backends import invitation_backend urlpatterns = [ ... path('accounts/', include('organizations.urls')), path('invitations/', include(invitation_backend().get_urls())), ] This is the simplest way of using the library, but it's far from the only or even the best way. See the `Cooking with Django Organizations` section of the docs full explanation of the use cases and how to configure them. Auto slug field ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The standard way of using Django Organizations is to use it as an installed app in your Django project. Django Organizations will need to use an auto slug field which are not included. By default it will try to import these from django-extensions, but you can configure your own in settings. The default: .. code-block:: python ORGS_SLUGFIELD = 'django_extensions.db.fields.AutoSlugField' Alternative: .. code-block:: python ORGS_SLUGFIELD = 'autoslug.fields.AutoSlugField' - `django-extensions `_ - `Django AutoSlug `_ - `django-slugger `_ Registration & invitation backends ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can specify a different invitation backend in your project settings, and the `invitation_backend` function will provide the URLs defined by that backend: .. code-block:: python INVITATION_BACKEND = 'myapp.backends.MyInvitationBackend' Usage Overview ============== For most use cases it should be sufficient to include the app views directly using the default URL conf file. You can customize their functionality or access controls by extending the base views. There are three models: * **Organization** The group object. This is what you would associate your own app's functionality with, e.g. subscriptions, repositories, projects, etc. * **OrganizationUser** A custom `through` model for the ManyToMany relationship between the `Organization` model and the `User` model. It stores additional information about the user specific to the organization and provides a convenient link for organization ownership. * **OrganizationOwner** The user with rights over the life and death of the organization. This is a one to one relationship with the `OrganizationUser` model. This allows `User` objects to own multiple organizations and makes it easy to enforce ownership from within the organization's membership. The underlying organizations API is simple: .. code-block:: python >>> from organizations.utils import create_organization >>> chris = User.objects.get(username="chris") >>> soundgarden = create_organization(chris, "Soundgarden", org_user_defaults={'is_admin': True}) >>> soundgarden.is_member(chris) True >>> soundgarden.is_admin(chris) True >>> soundgarden.owner.organization_user >>> soundgarden.owner.organization_user.user >>> >>> audioslave = create_organization(chris, "Audioslave") >>> tom = User.objects.get(username="tom") >>> audioslave.add_user(tom, is_admin=True) Custom models ------------- Django-organizations can act as a base library (not installed in your project) and used to create unique organization model sets using custom tables. See the `Cooking with Django Organizations `_ section in the documentation for advice on proceeding. License ======= Anyone is free to use or modify this software under the terms of the BSD license.