Yet another auth-related posting... I was a bit surprised, when trying to customize the auth_user table, that the fields 'first_name' and 'last_name' were mandatory. Because they are used in other places in gluon/tools.py: table_membership, table_event, get_or_create_user0 and description for a register form.
I followed the instruction on Customizing auth_user (web2py_manual_678.pdf), added a field 'username' with the NOT_IN_DB validator, and changed menu.py to display username instead of first name in the Authentication box. All worked fine :-) As a minimal auth_user, I was thinking of using username and password only, but, deleting the fields 'first_name' and 'last_name' broke the code because they were used in other places as mentioned above. Is the 'email' field mandatory as well? Probably, but haven't checked it yet. I haven't figured out what registration_key is and does... There is another problem regarding the notion of first_name and last_name when I try to use them in Japanese. Because in Japanese the order is family_name and then given_name, i.e., last_name and then first_name. Chinese has the order, too, I think. How about middle name? I know Brazilian has longer names... As such, for l10n, customizing the name part is necessary, but it requires changing gluon/ tools.py in the current setting. Talking about l10n, I'm not sure yet how to translate the error messages in Auth... They need to be translated because they may be exposed to users when a form is not filled, for example. Perhaps, these issues are already addressed, or solved or being solved by Massimo and developers. I will appreciate any advice or pointers. -- Teru --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
