tom-registration 0.1.0a2

Reusable TOMToolkit app to support multiple user registration flows.

TOM Registration

This reusable TOM Toolkit app provides support for two user registration flows in the TOM Toolkit.

The two registration flows are as follows:

1. Open Registration - In this flow, the user fills in a registration form and is immediately able to access the TOM as a member of the Public Group.

2. Approval Registration - In this flow, the user fills in a registration form, and is inactive until an administrator reviews and approves their registration.

Installation

1. Install the package into your TOM environment:

   pip install tom_registration
   

2. In your project settings.py, add tom_registration to your INSTALLED_APPS setting:

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       ...
       'tom_registration',
   ]
   

   And add the follow setting, with appropriate values for your use case:

   TOM_REGISTRATION = {
       'REGISTRATION_AUTHENTICATION_BACKEND': 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
       'REGISTRATION_REDIRECT_PATTERN': 'home',
       'SEND_APPROVAL_EMAILS': True
   }
   

   To prevent logged-in users from accessing the registration page, add RedirectAuthenticatedUsersFromRegisterMiddleware to the MIDDLEWARE settings:

   MIDDLEWARE = [
       ...
       'tom_common.middleware.AuthStrategyMiddleware',
       'tom_registration.middleware.RedirectAuthenticatedUsersFromRegisterMiddleware',
   ]
   

3. Depending on your preferred registration flow, include the appropriate tom_registration URLconf in your project urls.py. You will need to ensure that this urlpattern appears in the list before your tom_common.urls.

Open Registration:

```python
    urlpatterns = [
        ...
        path('', include('tom_registration.registration_flows.open.urls', namespace='registration')),
    ]
```

Approval Registration:

```python
    urlpatterns = [
        ...
        path('', include('tom_registration.registration_flows.approval_required.urls', namespace='registration')),
    ]
```

4. While the registration views are now accessible directly, some changes need to be made to templates to make them available.

Copy the contents of this file to templates/tom_common/partials/navbar_login.html.

If you're using approval registration, copy the contents of this file to templates/auth/user_list.html.

5. If you're using approval registration and you would like a message informing the user that their account is pending approval if they try to log in prior to approval, you'll need to make the following changes:

First, in your settings.py, set the first item of your AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS:

```python
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.AllowAllUsersModelBackend',
    'guardian.backends.ObjectPermissionBackend'
)
```

Then, change the value of REGISTRATION_AUTHENTICATION_BACKEND in the TOM_REGISTRATION setting that was just created:

```python
TOM_REGISTRATION = {
    'REGISTRATION_AUTHENTICATION_BACKEND': 'django.contrib.auth.backends.AllowAllUsersModelBackend`,
    ...
}
```

Email

In the approval required registration flow, there is available behavior to send basic emails notifying administrators of a registration request, and notifying users of registration approval. Administrators are determined by the Django MANAGERS setting. Email behavior can be enabled or disabled with SEND_APPROVAL_EMAILS.

The configuration of an email backend is a topic covered in depth by the Django docs. There are a number of required settings that will need to be added.

In the future, tom_registration will provide more configurable behavior upon user registration/approval.

Running the tests

In order to run the tests, run the following in your virtualenv:

python manage.py test