How are users assigned to tasks?

[techieharsh7]

How are users assigned to tasks?

[brutalharsh]

When creating or editing a task through the AddTaskModal, you can select a user from a dropdown that displays both their name and Discord ID.

[bctiemann]

Hi @cleboo! Both errors are symptoms of the same root cause — Django needs to be fully initialised before any NetBox or plugin code can be imported, and a standalone .py script does not do that automatically.

Error 1 (Requested setting FIELD_CHOICES, but settings are not configured) — no Django settings at all.

Error 2 (AppRegistryNotReady: Apps aren't loaded yet.) — you set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE, which loads settings, but Django's app registry still needs django.setup() to be called before any model imports can work.

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Option A — Use the NetBox shell (easiest)

cd /opt/netbox/netbox
python manage.py nbshell

Then paste your code inside the shell. All models are importable immediately. To run a file non-interactively:

python manage.py nbshell < export_cot.py

Option B — Standalone script with Django bootstrap

Add these lines at the top of your script, before any other imports:

import os
import django

os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "netbox.settings")
django.setup()   # <- this is the missing piece

from netbox_custom_objects.schema.exporter import export_cots
from netbox_custom_objects.models import CustomObjectType
import json

cots = CustomObjectType.objects.filter(slug__in=["typeA", "typeB"])
document = export_cots(cots)
print(json.dumps(document, indent=2))

Then run from the directory that contains manage.py:

cd /opt/netbox/netbox
python /path/to/export_cot.py

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The docs did not make this clear — I have just updated them to explain both approaches and add a warning about the AppRegistryNotReady error. Sorry for the confusion!