Customizing Your Django Appointment Scheduler

Initial Setup

Append the following to your Django's settings.py to configure your user model:

AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'models.UserModel'  # Optional if you use Django's user model
            

Example of using a custom user model called UserClient in an app named client:

AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'client.UserClient'
            

Using the default Django user model:

AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'auth.User'
            

Configure the create_user function to support your custom user model:

def create_user(first_name, email, username, last_name=None, **extra_fields):
    pass
            

This function will create a passwordless user and send a link to set the password via email.

Set your website's name in your settings.py, which will be used in email footers:

APPOINTMENT_WEBSITE_NAME = 'Chocolates'
            

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Essential Configurations

Here are the crucial configurations needed for the application to operate correctly:

APPOINTMENT_BASE_TEMPLATE = 'base_templates/base.html'
APPOINTMENT_ADMIN_BASE_TEMPLATE = 'base_templates/base.html'  # optional
APPOINTMENT_WEBSITE_NAME = 'Website'
APPOINTMENT_PAYMENT_URL = None
APPOINTMENT_THANK_YOU_URL = None
APPOINTMENT_BUFFER_TIME = 0
APPOINTMENT_SLOT_DURATION = 30
APPOINTMENT_LEAD_TIME = (9, 0)
APPOINTMENT_FINISH_TIME = (16, 30)
            

Email Reminder Configuration

Configure Django Q for email reminders after adding it to your INSTALLED_APPS:

Q_CLUSTER = {
    'name': 'DjangORM',
    'workers': 4,
    'timeout': 90,
    'retry': 120,
    'queue_limit': 50,
    'bulk': 10,
    'orm': 'default',
}
            

Start the Django Q cluster with the command:

python manage.py qcluster