Inconsistent Required status for First name and Last name fields in Profiles and Users classes in Admin Console

[werberger]

Description

In the Admin Console, you are not able to save a Profile with empty First name or Last name.

However, you are able to save a User with name fields empty.

What should have happened?

No response

What browser(s) are you seeing the problem on?

No response

Further details

If the desired outcome is that the Profile can be saved with empty name fields then I think an easy fix may be:

class Profile(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name="profile")
first_name = models.CharField(max_length=63, blank=**False**) change to True
last_name = models.CharField(max_length=63, blank=**False**) change to True

Or if "Anonymous" is the desired default (as I've seen mentioned), a possibly a partial solution would be to add default="Anonymous" for first_name and change blank to True as above. However, this would still mean that first_name would be required, of course.

[ilaiyengar]

Hi, I am a first time contributor! Would this be a good first issue that I can assist with?

[brylie]

@werberger may want to claim this issue.

[werberger]

yeah. thanks @brylie and sorry @ilaiyengar - if it's any consolation it will also be my first contribution.

[Nehemiah60]

Hello, @brylie. Kindly assign me this

[LuckyKhoza-crypto]

It's still open, please assign it to me.