Thanks Áureo, good to know! I use the other format because I do a few checks before doing the update, to see if the data is valid, but this short notation will no doubt be helpful in the future :)
Ricardo. On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at 11:06:05 AM UTC, Áureo Dias Neto wrote: > > Hello, > > You can do this, for update > > db(db.person.id==1).update(name='Tim') > > > 2017-01-04 9:01 GMT-02:00 Ricardo Oliveira <[email protected] > <javascript:>>: > >> Hi Anthony, >> >> Thanks for your reply. >> I'm using the DAL's insert method for the creation. Eg: >> >> db.table_x.insert(name='something') >> >> For updates, I get the rows from the table first, change the values on >> the row object and then use the update_record() method for updating. Eg: >> >> record = db(db.table_x.id == row_id).select().first() >> record['name'] = 'something else' >> record.update_record() >> >> >> Thanks. >> Ricardo. >> >> >> On Friday, December 23, 2016 at 10:40:01 PM UTC, Anthony wrote: >>> >>> 2) the user & time are not recorded on the modified_on, modified_by >>>> columns >>>> >>> >>> How are you creating/updating the records? >>> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. >> > > -- 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.

