Like your answers Anthony :) Richard
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > I've worked out how to remove the 'forget username?' and 'Retrieve >> Password' entries from the navbar by editing gluon/tools.py, and restarting >> server. >> >> This seems a bit severe, altering web2py source code. I imagine my >> changes will be overwritten at next update. >> >> Is there a way to do it in the layout.html view? >> > > First, do you want to disable those two actions altogether, or simply > remove the links from the navbar (but still allow users to use those > functions)? If the former: > > auth.settings.actions_disabled = ['retrieve_username', > 'request_reset_password'] > > That will disable those actions (i.e., they won't be allowed via a call to > auth(), though you could still call the individual functions themselves), > and they will not appear in the navbar. See > http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/9#Settings-and-messages. > > If you just want to edit the navbar, note that it is simply an HTML helper > object (a SPAN object containing opening and closing brackets, some links, > and separators), so you can manipulate it via the server-side DOM: > http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/5#Server-side-DOM-and-parsing. > > In the navbar, those two items and their two separators start at the 5th > item within the SPAN and include all but the last item (which is the > closing bracket), so you could do: > > navbar = auth.navbar() > del navbar[4:-1] > > Anthony > >
