Thanks Anthony. I notice it's been a few months since that issue was posted. I realize that changes can't happen overnight, but is there any sense of when a fix might be released? At the moment this basically means the (simple and elegant) crud authorization is useless to me. (I've never learned how to install patches, so I can't easily use the patch posted on that issue).
Ian On Sep 9, 11:42 pm, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, that issue has been > reported:http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=349 > > Anthony > > > > > > > > On Friday, September 9, 2011 11:13:04 PM UTC-4, monotasker wrote: > > > One other thing: When I try to create a new permission (on > > db.auth_permissions) the selectbox for the "Table name" field isn't > > showing any of my custom tables. It's only populated with the built in > > auth tables. Is this the way it's supposed to be? I thought that I > > could create a permission that links a group name with any table in > > db. > > > Thanks again, > > > Ian > > > On Sep 9, 6:14 pm, Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Basically you default they do nothing. You can take the fields to mean > > > what you want. You can set them auth.add_persmission(...) and you can > > > check them auth.has_permission(...) or with decorator > > > @auth.requires_permission(...). > > > > Things change if you set > > > > crud.settings.auth = auth > > > > in this case crud will recognize permissions with names = > > > 'read','create','update','delete', and 'select' on the tables that you > > > have specified. The record_id is optional. If not set the permission > > > applied to the entire table. If set the permission applied to the > > > record only. > > > > Hope this helps. There is not much more to it really. > > > > On Sep 9, 4:31 pm, monotasker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'm climbing up the learning curve with web2py (which really isn't > > > > very steep compared to other tools I've worked with!) and have run > > > > into something that I can't figure out from the book: the permissions > > > > system. When I create a "permission" in auth_permissions (using > > > > appadmin) I don't understand what each of the field values does > > > > (table? name?). The book seems to skip over this very quickly. > > > > > (I feel compelled to add that the book is the best official > > > > documentation I've ever seen for an open source project, with nowhere > > > > near the lag or holes in jQuery or Drupal docs. I bought the pdf > > > > version because I know the time investment that represents!). > > > > > Ian
