You can do it and it will work. But you will not be able to download it using the "download" action. That is because it expects a certain format for filenames. You will need a custom download action that would know how to located the file from its name.
Massimo On Tuesday, 25 December 2012 18:56:07 UTC-6, rochacbruno wrote: > > 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 > > > >-- > > > > > > > --
