Thanks, it works, and is better than changing gluon/tools.py#navbar
directly ;)
I additionally surrounded it with a {{if 'auth' in globals():}} ...
{{pass}}.It would be indeed better to add a parameter to the navbar method to choose which field to display (and first_name by default). Cheers, Thomas On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, December 22, 2011 10:23:59 PM UTC-5, Thomas Dall'Agnese wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> >> Is there a way to change the field displayed in the "Welcome" block on >> the top right without changing web2py source code? >> I looked at the code and we can change the "Welcome" text by defining the >> prefix="Howdy" or whatever you want to replace the default "Welcome", but >> is there a way to change the fact that the First Name is displayed then? >> For example displaying the Last Name or the Username? >> > > Maybe we should make that more customizable. For now, maybe: > > {{auth.user.first_name = auth.user.last_name}} > {{=auth.navbar()}} > > You may need to switch first_name back to its original value after that. > > Anthony >
