AFAIK upload fields are just string fields, so you can insert any string there!
db.table.insert(filefield="blah") should work! You just have to use Python glob, os, sh or shutil to take a list of files and then populate the database. On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 03:40:51PM -0800, lucas wrote:
hello one and all, i am doing en masse data table using xml data to a table that has an upload field. the files are already present in the upload subdirectory but i need to populate the table with the data, including the file name that is the upload field. i hope that made sense. how do i populate the fields using a db.table_name.insert(*...***) without web2py wanting to actually upload the file? thanx in advance, lucas --
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