Solved in two different ways.
1. Must have done something dumb, but it works to put a custom auth.bar in
a model, menu.py is a good one. This worked:
def user_bar():
if auth.is_logged_in():
logout = A('Logout', _href = URL('full', 'user', args='logout'))
profile = A('Profile', _href = URL('full', 'user', args='profile'))
password = A('Change Password', _href = URL('full', 'user',
args='change_password'))
bar = SPAN('Welcome, ' + auth.user.first_name, ' | ', profile, ' |
', password, ' | ', logout, _class = 'auth_navbar')
else:
login = A('Login', _href = URL('full', 'user', args='login'))
register = A('Register', _href = URL('full', 'user',
args='register'))
lost_password = A('Lost Password', _href = URL('full', 'user',
args='request_reset_password'))
bar = SPAN(' ', login, ' | ', register, ' | ', lost_password,
_class = 'auth_navbar')
return bar
I referred to it in a view via: {{=user_bar()}}. Not clear what I did
wrong before, it works.
2. Then, I read the manual ("rfm") about gluon.tools/auth and discovered I
could explicitly provide an action as a named argument: <div
id="navbar">{{='auth' in globals() and
auth.navbar(action='user',separators=(' ',' | ',''))}}</div>. This also
worked.
Sometimes, you need to look at source to figure out how an argument will be
parsed to provide the right argument. For example, including the
controller as in full/user did not work as web2py assumes the current
controller when not supplied.
Thanks.
So, I have 2 ways to do as I want. I have used method 2.
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