Anthony,
How do I set them to writable when I need them to be? I'm attempting to
update them in a controller and I'm not sure how to do it....
Chris
On Monday, 20 May 2013 12:19:32 UTC-4, Anthony wrote:
>
> Setting a field's "writable" attribute to False prevents users from
> inputting values in forms, and setting the "readable" attribute to False
> prevents the field from appearing at all. Note, you can set these
> attributes dynamically, so they can default to False, but you can
> selectively set them to True in particular contexts.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Monday, May 20, 2013 12:13:48 PM UTC-4, Chris Teodorski wrote:
>>
>> Sorry - it is a one to one relationship. So if I include it as part of
>> the auth_user table -- I will need to prevent users form directly editing
>> the challenge fields (and not expose them on registration) -- so I guess I
>> now need to figure out how to do that.
>>
>> Thanks again for the help.
>>
>>
>> On Monday, 20 May 2013 11:43:13 UTC-4, Anthony wrote:
>>>
>>> I assumed this was a one-to-many relationship, but given that it is
>>> actually one-to-one, you certainly could just put the t_teams fields
>>> directly in the auth_user table.
>>>
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>> On Monday, May 20, 2013 10:02:11 AM UTC-4, Chris Teodorski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Let me try again to explain what I'm striving for and see if that helps
>>>> you guys help me. I'm really trying to explain as concisely as possible,
>>>> without explaining the nitty gritty of what I'm trying to do.
>>>>
>>>> In my ideal situation, when a user registers, they create a team name
>>>> as part of the registration process. When registration occurs a row is
>>>> added to the the t_teams table which contains a field for their team name
>>>> and their status on all of the challenges.
>>>>
>>>> Now that I'm explaining it -- perhaps the 'right' solution is to just
>>>> add the extra fields to the auth_user table and not bother with having a
>>>> secondary table.
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, 20 May 2013 09:47:14 UTC-4, Chris Teodorski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm going to give this a try -- but I'm honestly not sure exactly what
>>>>> this field definition does. I'm going to play with it a bit and RTFM to
>>>>> see if I can figure it out.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, 20 May 2013 09:26:23 UTC-4, Anthony wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would it work for you to just have a foreign key reference to the
>>>>>> auth_user primary key, which is the id field? You could set the
>>>>>> "represent"
>>>>>> attribute of the "name" field to display the "team_name" value from the
>>>>>> referenced auth_user record.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> db.define_table('t_teams',
>>>>>> Field('name', db.auth_user,
>>>>>> requires=IS_IN_DB(db, 'auth_user.id', '%s(team_name)s'),
>>>>>> represent=lambda id, r: db.auth_user(id).team_name))
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anthony
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Monday, May 20, 2013 7:49:49 AM UTC-4, Chris Teodorski wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What I'm trying to do -- and obviously not explaining well is to
>>>>>>> have t_teams.name to be a foreign key for the field custom field in
>>>>>>> auth_users.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does that explain it any better?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Monday, 20 May 2013 02:59:00 UTC-4, Niphlod wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> uhm.
>>>>>>>> what do you want (as examples) in auth_user.team_name and what on
>>>>>>>> t_teams.name ?
>>>>>>>> if you want e.g. "a-team" in auth_user.team_name and "a-team" in
>>>>>>>> t_teams.name, and a record in t_teams must exist only with a
>>>>>>>> "name" that is one of the team_name values of the auth_user table
>>>>>>>> (i.e. you
>>>>>>>> have to create the user BEFORE the t_teams), then you can't create
>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>> reference.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You should use a Field('name', requires=IS_IN_DB(db,
>>>>>>>> 'auth_user.team_name'))
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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