How to use Django-jet with Django-oscar

Question

I am trying to integrate Django-jet with Django-oscar, but keep getting the error:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Application labels aren't unique, duplicates: dashboard

I have tried removing oscar core dashboard app from the installed apps list using OSCAR_HIDDEN_FEATURES but does not seem to work.

Answer 1

The proper solution for this is for the apps packaged by both packages should follow the new convention of using an AppConfig that can be subclassed and modified (to change the app label).

Unfortunately neither django-jet nor django-oscar 1.6 follow this practise, so you are a bit stuck. Django 2.0 (just released) has moved to use app configs, so your best bet is to use that and subclass Oscar's dashboard app to give it a different label. You would then list your subclass in INSTALLED_APPS instead of the default one.

Side note - Oscar provides it's own dashboard that is completely independent of the Django admin. I am not sure there is much to be gained by combining these two packages in the same project.

OSCAR_HIDDEN_FEATURES is not relevant here - it only controls what is visible in the front end, not what apps are loaded.