[web2py] Updating auth.user extra_fields?

2013-11-18 Thread User
I want to store user page size preference for when there is a list view of items that needs pagination and have that preference persist between logins. Two questions about this: 1. I decided to add an extra field to my auth.table. Is this the best place to store this type of data

[web2py] Re: call function with parameter from views

2013-11-15 Thread User
I think by default, functions with arguments are not exposed. From: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3003449/web2py-controllers-with-parameters web2py specifically detects valid controller functions as those functions that have no arguments On Thursday, November 14, 2013 9:03:34 PM UTC-5,

[web2py] Does web2py have an ajax username availablity validator?

2013-11-15 Thread User
On my user registration form I'd like to add an ajax username availability control similar to how twitter does. After each character you type on twitter registration you get either Username is available. or This username is already taken! Does web2py have something like this already? I know

[web2py] Re: Database insert of time field in web2py not working?

2013-11-15 Thread User
a field with time type is the IS_TIME validator added as a single validator or as a list with length 1? On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 11:48:57 AM UTC-5, Niphlod wrote: db.table.field.requires.append(what_you_need) On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 6:43:38 AM UTC+1, User wrote: So since a time

[web2py] Different code at web2py.com/examples/static/epydoc vs code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse?

2013-11-14 Thread User
Why is the source code for the navbar function http://web2py.com/examples/static/epydoc/web2py.gluon.tools-pysrc.html#Auth.navbar different than the code for http://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse/gluon/tools.py#1318 For example, the latter has nested functions such as Anr(), menu(), and

[web2py] Re: call function with parameter from views

2013-11-14 Thread User
1. On the line: {{=SPAN(A(T('Process 3'), _href=URL('revert(ids)' ) ) ) }} You have the function call inside a string so it will just be treated as a string. If you wanted to call it as a function you would probably need to do like this: {{=SPAN(A(T('Process 3'), _href=URL(revert(ids) ) ) )

[web2py] Re: call function with parameter from views

2013-11-14 Thread User
I think by default, functions with arguments are not exposed. From: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3003449/web2py-controllers-with-parameters web2py specifically detects valid controller functions as those functions that have no arguments On Thursday, November 14, 2013 9:03:34 PM UTC-5,

[web2py] Database insert of time field in web2py not working?

2013-11-12 Thread User
I have some code that was working before but I can't quite pinpoint why it's not working now. In any case it's a time field in a table and when I insert into this field the database shows '00:00:00' in the field (by looking at the record in an SQLite admin tool)

[web2py] Re: Database insert of time field in web2py not working?

2013-11-12 Thread User
. Does this sound like what the problem is? If so, how do I get around it? On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 3:24:36 AM UTC-5, User wrote: I have some code that was working before but I can't quite pinpoint why it's not working now. In any case it's a time field in a table and when I insert

[web2py] Re: Database insert of time field in web2py not working?

2013-11-12 Thread User
+1, User wrote: Just realized I added the following lines after my db.define_table statement: db.sometable.start_time.notnull = True db.sometable.start_time.requires = IS_NOT_EMPTY() I'm thinking that my assignment of IS_NOT_EMPTY() overwrote the default IS_TIME() validator associated

[web2py] Re: Table inheritance: _before_insert?

2013-10-24 Thread User
standard_fields.modified_on.update = request.now it will not make a difference in appadmin so it seems like using compute may be the best option On Saturday, October 5, 2013 9:06:53 PM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: On Saturday, October 5, 2013 8:04:54 PM UTC-4, User wrote: I do have writable=False and I

[web2py] Re: Table inheritance: _before_insert?

2013-10-24 Thread User
Actually unless I'm missing something I don't think using a computed field will work for the create_on field because this seems to modify the field any time you update the record. However it does work for the modified_on field. On Thursday, October 24, 2013 2:30:44 AM UTC-4, User wrote

[web2py] Mercurial creating new apps?

2013-10-21 Thread User
I have cloned the web2py mercurial repository and hg updated to R-2.7.4. I'm using TortoiseHg on windows. Now when I want to create a new application based on the welcome app how should I go about doing this? what is the normal workflow for this? I'm guessing the idea is that I would create

[web2py] Re: Mercurial creating new apps?

2013-10-21 Thread User
When I click the Versioning link I get Sorry, could not find mercurial installed although I have TortoiseHg installed. Does this work for you? On Monday, October 21, 2013 5:56:28 PM UTC-4, Dave S wrote: On Monday, October 21, 2013 12:15:05 PM UTC-7, User wrote: I have cloned the web2py

[web2py] Re: Code completion: Do I need to install to install web2py from source?

2013-10-20 Thread User
I see web2py seems to have both mercurial and git repositories. I'm more familiar with hg but I can get more familiar with git if need be. Is one preferred over the other? Any pros/cons with respect to web2py? Which is path of least resistance? On Saturday, October 19, 2013 3:13:29 PM

[web2py] Code completion: Do I need to install to install web2py from source?

2013-10-18 Thread User
I want to get code completion working in my editor (currently using Komodo Edit). I have seen that at the top of my files I need to put something like: if 0: from gluon.sql import * from gluon.sqlhtml import * from gluon.html import * db = DAL() #optionally use table references

[web2py] Re: web2py!!!

2013-10-12 Thread User
Woah if you're on Windows and can't use python I wouldn't choose PHP as my first choice. Try C#/ASP.NET with either webforms or mvc ( http://www.asp.net/mvc). You can use free Visual Studio express IDE. Very easy/powerful development IMO and a large community with plenty of examples. If

[web2py] Re: Table inheritance: _before_insert?

2013-10-05 Thread User
('created_on', 'datetime', default=request.now)) You might also want to set writable=False. Anthony On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 11:26:08 PM UTC-4, User wrote: Using table inheritance to define a common set of fields. Given the following code: standard_fields = db.Table(db, 'standard_fields

[web2py] Re: Table inheritance: _before_insert?

2013-10-05 Thread User
I do have writable=False and I understand that will work for normal forms, but it still shows up in appadmin On Saturday, October 5, 2013 6:28:08 PM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: If you don't want the user to see or be able to edit the created_on value, just set readable=writable=False

[web2py] Does an inherited table also inherit _before_insert?

2013-10-01 Thread User
Using table inheritance to define a common set of fields. Given the following code: standard_fields = db.Table(db, 'standard_fields', Field('created_on', 'datetime'), ) standard_field._before_insert.append(lambda fields: fields['created'] =request .now) db.define_table('payment',

[web2py] Re: Getting started with routes.py error: type 'exceptions.ImportError' No module named fileutils ?

2013-09-30 Thread User
Am I doing something wrong in setting up routes? On Saturday, September 28, 2013 12:29:33 AM UTC-4, User wrote: Using web2py Version 2.6.4-stable+timestamp.2013.09.22.17.43.26 with Python 2.7. I've got web2py up and running with a simple app. Now I'm trying to get routes working. What

[web2py] Re: Komodo IDE web2py Setup

2013-09-30 Thread User
Will this work with Komodo Edit 8.5? How would I install it? On Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:14:16 PM UTC-4, Richard Penman wrote: I have uploaded my web2py extension file to that thread (http:// community.activestate.com/files/codeintel_web2py.py_.txt). Let me know if you have problems

[web2py] Getting started with routes.py error: type 'exceptions.ImportError' No module named fileutils ?

2013-09-27 Thread User
Using web2py Version 2.6.4-stable+timestamp.2013.09.22.17.43.26 with Python 2.7. I've got web2py up and running with a simple app. Now I'm trying to get routes working. What I did was copy routes.patterns.example.py from web2pyroot/examples to the web2pyroot folder and rename to routes.py.

[web2py] Re: How can I give google map javascript api marker title a suitably encoded string?

2013-09-26 Thread User
? And is it still safer from user injected code? At first glance it looks like someone could possibly inject something (myobject.name ultimately comes from user input). Maybe I can just strip out double quotes to make sure they can't close the string? On Thursday, September 26, 2013 12:02:55 PM UTC-4

[web2py] Re: How can I give google map javascript api marker title a suitably encoded string?

2013-09-26 Thread User
of this. On Thursday, September 26, 2013 5:14:40 PM UTC-4, User wrote: Yes I by viewing source I could see that generated javascript string had the character entity in it, so I knew the question was how to get web2py to output it correctly. Using XML works! thank you. By using XML the generated

[web2py] Model before save functionality?

2013-09-25 Thread User
I have a model with latitude and longitude fields. The lat and lng should be computed from the address via Google geocoding. Whenever the model is inserted or updated I want to update the lat and lng from the address of the model. In Yii PHP framework there a number of events that you can

[web2py] How can I give google map javascript api marker title a suitably encoded string?

2013-09-24 Thread User
I'm using the google map javascript api (v3). I have a google map in one of my views. I want to display the location name as the marker title (used when hovering over the marker). I'm using the following code in my view: script type=text/javascript function init_map() { var

[web2py] Inconsisten crud form processing

2013-07-24 Thread w2p user
I'm trying to use the custom CRUD form processing but am getting a strange result. For a simple two field form, the default form of the crud behaves as expected. The custom form doesn't process. Why are they different? Thank you for any help. {{=crud_form}} {{=crud_form.custom.begin}}

[web2py] web3py?

2012-11-26 Thread User
I noticed a thread over in web2py-developers web3py - important!https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/web2py-developers/RCeiRd3Rzs0 which was exciting to read. I've flirted with web2py and there's a lot that I like about it. For some reason I find web2py exciting whereas django

[web2py] From Drupal to web2py: taxonomy/tagging and comments?

2011-09-12 Thread User
I have some sites that I implemented using Drupal. However as cool as Drupal is I've never been satisfied with coding in it mostly because it's in PHP and I've wanted to work with python. I've flirted with Django but I just recently discovered web2py and it's definitely caught my eye. Seems like

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