Put everyone in the auth_user table and use groups. That could save you
heaps of time down the line. Otherwise I can imagine you'll start
reinventing what's already available to you in web2py. Use the framework
and the force will be with you!
If you need to keep lots of different info depending on what group they are
in, then you can always think about splitting that into different tables,
but only as a last resort.
Best wishes for your app, D
On Saturday, 1 December 2012 13:13:13 UTC, Daniele wrote:
>
> Hmmm that's one option, but here's the problem.
> Basically, I want users to sign up very easily. So I'm just using web2py's
> default auth for that.
> Then, I'd like them to pick if they are tutors/students or both. There is
> additional information they'd have to input in some forms for both roles.
> While I could just create two groups, the way I have it now as tutors are
> a table and students are another table in the database.
>
> I guess I'm a bit lost as to how the correct way to let the signed up
> users be either students/tutors or both is. Should it all be part of the
> signed up users table? Or should I have three tables? Should I just make
> groups?
>
> Any advice is much appreciated,
> Thanks!
>
>
> On Friday, November 23, 2012 7:24:42 PM UTC, Joe Barnhart wrote:
>>
>> Why not create a group for each class -- tutor and student -- and assign
>> group membership for each student? A student can participate in more than
>> one group. It's easy to test for group membership -- just use the
>> decorator:
>>
>> @auth.requires_membership('tutor')
>>
>> -- Joe B.
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 5:57:57 PM UTC-8, Daniele wrote:
>>>
>>> I am trying to build a model where each logged user can decide if he/she
>>> is a tutor or student or both.
>>> So the tutor table has to 'reference auth.settings.table_user_name' and
>>> student also has to have the same reference.
>>>
>>> The tutor/student/logged user have to be related by their id key I
>>> imagine.
>>>
>>> Is this the proper way to go about this? Moreover, how can I check that
>>> the relationship is working?
>>>
>>
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