On Monday, June 15, 2015 at 7:57:14 AM UTC-4, dt0...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, > > Excellent product web2py but still trying to get my head around some of > the structure > and some burning questions from the documentation. > > Question 1: > I want my auth tables to have an audit table. > So i uncommented the following line in db.py: > > > auth.enable_record_versioning(db) > > > Now this did not work: > > So some more reading and there is a mention of extra columns in the auth > table that are needed. > > Such as modified_by etc... > > 1) I don't know the definition of these extra columns needed. > > When Auth is initialized, a dummy table with is_active, created_by, created_on, modified_by, and modified_on fields is created and stored in auth.signature. You can add those fields to individual tables by doing db.define_table(..., auth.signature), and you can also add those fields to all Auth tables by doing auth.define_tables(..., signature=True).
> 2) Shouldn't the auditing as these by default if they are needed? > > Maybe, but for now, you have to first add the relevant fields before enabling versioning. > Also there is a bit of the documentation that says signature should equal > True for auditing to work. > > Is that right? Isn't signature for SSL? > > Not sure what you mean by that. The term "signature" is somewhat generic and has different meanings in different contexts. In the context of auth.define_tables(), the "signature" argument refers to adding those extra fields to each Auth table (semantically, the idea is that the created_by and modified_by fields are like a signature, given that they record the identify of the user who created/modified the record). Anthony -- 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.
