Pretty interresting... I wasn't know about this possibility. Thanks Anthony
Richard On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > The readable and writeable attributes of a field can be set conditionally > (e.g., depending on request parameters or user authorization) or changed at > any point in your code, so you could do: > > db.define_table('auth_user', ..., > Field('approved', writeable = auth.has_membership('admin') and True or > False)) > > Or in the action that generates the form to be used by the admin user: > > db.auth_user.approved.writeable = True > form = SQLFORM(db.auth_user, ...) > > Anthony > > On Thursday, January 5, 2012 2:26:54 PM UTC-5, lucas wrote: >> >> hello one and all, >> >> i have a field under a custom auth_user called "approved". it is >> writeable and readable False so that the users can not see or edit >> this field under the register form. >> >> but, i am also generating a form of the table where i want to be able >> to edit the "approved" field as the admin of the site. so i can see >> two possible ways of doing it. i can make the "approved" field >> writeable and remove it from the auto registration form somehow before >> it is sent from the server. or, leave the field writeable False, and >> then create the crud.update for the admin and then add this field >> manually to the crud object after it is created so that the admin can >> edit the field. >> >> please advise me into which of the two scenarios is best and exactly >> how to do it. thank you in advance and have a great day. lucas > >
