Just a side note, what about using table inheritance, creating a user_profile table that inherits from auth_table? I just saw it in the web2py book, it seems similar to the django abstract base class where other model classes may subclass from the abstract class inheriting all its fields.
> > > > > > > On Friday, August 19, 2011 5:30:06 AM UTC-4, Anaconda wrote: > > > > On Aug 19, 12:52 am, pbreit <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > To hide them without creating custom forms, set readable = writable = > > > False > > > > in the controller. > > > > Thanks, will that be in the def user(): controller. > > > Sure. You could set readable=writable=False in the model definition, and > > then temporarily set them to True in the user() action when > > request.args(0)=='profile'. Or default them to True and change them to False > > when request.args(0)=='register'.
