Pycharm: “unresolved reference” error on the IDE when opening a working project

Question

Intro

I have a Python project on a git repository. Everything works ok for most of the team members, we can sync the code and edit it without any pr

Answer 1

I also had the problem, and it took me few hours to find the exact solution.

You need to confirm the following things.

1. 'django.contrib.staticfiles', is added to INSTALLED_APPS in the settings.py file of your application.

2. The directory with the static contents (for example, images), named static, resides under the application root.

Now Do the following

PyCharm > Preferences > Project Settings > Django

Make sure your Django Project root, Settings.py and manage.py script are well defined in the dialog box.

You are good to go. Hope this helps.