Thanx for the help guys, what i did finally is db.videos.table.requires = IS_EMPTY_OR (IS_IN_DB(db(db.table.author_id==auth.user_id), db.table.id, '% (title)s'))
What about displaying a BIG dropdown list of "tables" entries? Any help here ??? On Nov 21, 4:09 pm, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > > But, according to your define_table()'s, these tables can only be > > managed (insert or update) with a logged user, or default contents > > will raise an excpetion because there's no logged user. > > The defaults won't raise an exception (as long as auth is defined prior to > the table definitions), because auth.user_id simply returns None when the > user is not logged in (i.e., it is not undefined). The same is true for > auth.user -- it returns None when there is no logged in user (though > auth.user.id will raise an exception because if auth.user is None, > obviously it has no 'id' attribute). > > See very end of this > section:http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/08#Authentication > > Anthony
