this feels like checkmate. I did get the 'is not callable' error as you anticipated. Is there an avenue that I don't see? At this point I am resigned to running the code a bunch of times and creating a bunch of lists; then assign one to each user; any advice before I go down that road?
On Monday, May 22, 2017 at 8:10:28 AM UTC-7, Anthony wrote: > > On Sunday, May 21, 2017 at 4:58:24 PM UTC-4, [email protected] > <javascript:> wrote: >> >> fun = database >> zip = table name >> inform = Field name >> this enters data into the database but I would prefer it run only once >> at registration. >> fun.zipdip.insert(infom=result) >> >> An interesting behavior is when I run the above I get 20 dates in the db. >> But when I run >> --auth.settings.register_onaccept.append(fun.zipdip.insert(infom=result))-- >> I end up with quite a few more, about 60, which is preferable. >> > > auth.settings.register_onaccept must be a list of one or more *functions*, > each of which will be called upon registration, with the registration > SQLFORM object passed in as the one and only argument. > > Your current code instead actually does a database insert when setting up > auth.settings.register_onaccept. So, every time the model file is executed > (presumably on every request), you will get a database insert. Also, > because the value added to the register_onaccept list is not actually a > callable, you should be getting an error upon registration. > > Anthony > -- 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.

