Thanks Richard, I am having a look right now.
On Monday, October 28, 2013 12:34:34 PM UTC-5, Richard wrote: > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/xeSxEu4xfA0/qDN6V4_BqK0J > > > http://rochacbruno.com.br/web2py-manage-users-and-membership-in-the-same-form/ > > > > Little research... > > > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Richard Vézina > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> https://github.com/elcio/badmin >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Richard Vézina >> <[email protected]<javascript:> >> > wrote: >> >>> I am not sure exactly what you want. >>> >>> You can create group by the appadmin, and you only need to do it once >>> for each group. For the assignation of user to a given group, with the >>> appadmin you have to do it many time (one for each group member, one at a >>> time), if you have to review/add new group member frequently you can create >>> a controller function for this... >>> >>> The access to this function should be restrict as above. >>> >>> You will need a custom widget I guess to make the user membre picking >>> easier (not having to populate the membership table one at a time), maybe >>> SQLFORM.factory() is a better choice then SQLFORM() in this case to >>> construct custom field for the user member picking... Sorry, I don't have >>> any pseudo or code that come to mind rapidly, but for sure you can find and >>> reuse code available here on the list... Also, there is a better appadmin >>> admi interface call badmin or badadmin, you could maybe find code for this, >>> or see how it is programmed. There is also web2pyslice where it may be >>> possible to find code snippet for this. >>> >>> Hopes it helps >>> >>> Richard >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:13 PM, raferbop <[email protected]<javascript:> >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> Richard, I was about to post a similar question, but let me just ask >>>> you. I am also new to web2py, and I am not able to find any good resources >>>> in relation to creating multiple groups or assigning roles to users. For >>>> example, lets say I have a group of users that I want to categorize as >>>> company, drivers, and passengers. Can you shed some light of how I can >>>> take >>>> the built-in auth_user function and create these various groups. >>>> >>>> Rafer >>>> >>>> >>>> On Monday, October 28, 2013 9:21:58 AM UTC-5, Richard wrote: >>>> >>>>> If you are sure that the user that will be manage by other user is 1 >>>>> to many (many users that can declared which user is their manager), you >>>>> can >>>>> do that (self-reference). But this is only one part of the problem, I >>>>> think >>>>> you need to create a group of admin_user that are allow to manage other >>>>> users, the one that reference them, so you can get the list of users that >>>>> are mananagable by a given admin user like so : db(db.auth_user.id == >>>>> auth.user_id).select(db.auth_**user.id <http://db.auth_user.id>) in >>>>> this case the auth.user_id is the admin user that is authenticated. >>>>> >>>>> You better have a group of admin and user web2py RBAC to make sure you >>>>> have a better controller over the users allowed to manage other users. >>>>> That >>>>> way, you can user the web2py tool to make sure only the users that have >>>>> right can access you manage_user function, something like that : >>>>> >>>>> @auth.requires_login() >>>>> @auth.requires(lambda: auth.has_membership('admin')) >>>>> def manage_user(): >>>>> rows = db(db.auth_user.id == auth.user_id).select(db.auth_** >>>>> user.id <http://db.auth_user.id>) >>>>> id_of_users_to_be_managed = [row.id for row in rows] >>>>> if request.vars.user_id in id_of_users_to_be_managed: >>>>> form = SQLFORM(db.auth_user, user_id) >>>>> ... >>>>> else: >>>>> form = 'You can't manage this user' >>>>> return dict(form=form) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> :) >>>>> >>>>> Richard >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Mikael Cederberg >>>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi there and thanks for a stellar project - really cool. I am trying >>>>>> to solve an issue that arose and was hoping for a pointer so I can solve >>>>>> it. >>>>>> >>>>>> I am wanting to use the authentication mechanism of web2py pretty >>>>>> much as is, but I need to be able to have one registered user, in some >>>>>> cases, be given the ability to administrate and act as other registered >>>>>> users. >>>>>> My thoughts were along the lines of adding a column parent_of to >>>>>> auth_user and if an id is specified here pointing towards another user, >>>>>> the >>>>>> specified id can administrate as that user. Would this be a proper way >>>>>> to >>>>>> go about it, and how could this be implemented? >>>>>> >>>>>> Any thoughts or ideas would be welcome. >>>>>> >>>>>> Tnx, Mikael >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Resources: >>>>>> - http://web2py.com >>>>>> - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) >>>>>> - http://github.com/web2py/**web2py >>>>>> <http://github.com/web2py/web2py>(Source code) >>>>>> - >>>>>> https://code.google.com/p/**web2py/issues/list<https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list>(Report >>>>>> Issues) >>>>>> --- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "web2py-users" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>> send an email to web2py+un...@**googlegroups.com. >>>>>> >>>>>> For more options, visit >>>>>> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >>>>>> . >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>> Resources: >>>> - http://web2py.com >>>> - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) >>>> - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) >>>> - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "web2py-users" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>> >>> >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. 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