Thank you! For some reason I was thinking of this setting as a boolean, and figuring how to use a callback to rename the group :/
On Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 2:01:16 PM UTC-5, Niphlod wrote: > > from the source it seems that the setting > > create_user_groups > > which has a default of > > "user_%(id)s" > > can be used. in your case it seems that setting it to user_%(username)s > should do the trick. > > On Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 8:48:49 PM UTC+2, Antonio Salazar wrote: >> >> I've disabled user group creation, but now I need user-specific >> permissions, so I'm going to re-enable it and create the missing user >> groups. I'd really like the groups to be user_[username] instead of >> user_[user_id]. >> Is there an upgrade-friendly way to base the group name on something >> other than the user id? >> >> I know it's best practice to use the id because it's unique, but in my >> case, the username is also unique and invariable. I'd bear the slight risk >> of inconsistency in exchange for human-readable group names. >> > -- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

