Anthony, thanks for your response, the only inconvenience that I see is that the 'update_date' Field will be updated if there's a change in the whole Row, instead of a particular Cell. How can we specify to update if a particular Cell changed?
On Friday, October 31, 2014 10:24:15 PM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: > > Does this work: > > db.define_table('dogs', ..., > Field('creation_date', 'datetime', default=now), > Field('update_date', 'datetime', default=None, update=now > )) > > Then in your update_or_insert, don't explicitly specify either of those > fields and let the default/update attributes handle it. > > Anthony > > On Friday, October 31, 2014 5:47:41 PM UTC-4, Luis Ramos wrote: >> >> I'm currently using this method to insert new elements. How can I update >> the 'update_date' field only if there's an update and only insert the >> 'creation_date' one time? >> >> import datetime >> >> now = datetime.datetime.now() >> >> db.define_table('dogs', Field('name'), >> Field('owner'), >> Field('address'), >> Field('creation_date', 'datetime'), >> Field('update_date', 'datetime')) >> >> >> q1 = db.dogs.name == 'Paco' >> q2 = db.dogs.owner == 'Rob' >> >> db.dogs.update_or_insert((q1) & (q2), name='Paco', owner='Rob', >> creation_date=now) >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.