No, nothing will be persisted if you use only the session (the session lasts only during a particular browser session and disappears when the browser session has ended -- such as when the user closes the browser).
On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 12:20:34 PM UTC-5, aetagot...@gmail.com wrote: > > Also.. To add to my other post below..I was reading on the SQLFORM.factory > and it seems like that may be a viable options as well for what I am trying > to do. Here is the section I am referring to: > > *"SQLFORM.factory* > > *There are cases when you want to generate forms as if you had a database > table but you do not want the database table. You simply want to take > advantage of the SQLFORM capability to generate a nice looking CSS-friendly > form and perhaps perform file upload and renaming.* > > *This can be done via a form_factory. Here is an example where you > generate the form, perform validation, upload a file and store everything > in the session :"* > > > If a user is logged in and it stores in the session, is that the same > thing as it saving it to an associated record in the database table? > > > Thank you > > > On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 11:18:51 AM UTC-5, Richard wrote: >> >> Sure all this can be done. What have you done so far? Can you show us >> some piece of code? >> >> Richard >> >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:15 AM, <aetag...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> I am very new to web2py. I was hoping for some insight as to whether >>> what I am trying to do is possible, and maybe if I can be redirected as to >>> what I should read up on to help me figure this out. Any advice or insight >>> will help. >>> >>> I have web forms, which are linked to an excel file template. Once a web >>> form is filled out and submitted, it is saved into the same folder that the >>> excel template file is located in, under a new name where the original >>> excel file template is untouched. >>> >>> I want to make it so that, a user registers an account and when they >>> fill out the webform it saves to that specific user in the database. If >>> they fill out the same webform again, it saves without erasing their >>> previous forms. >>> >>> I am very certain that this is possible to do within web2py. I think to >>> accomplish this, I need to use SQLForm. Will I need two seperate databases >>> to accomplish this? One database that registers users, and another database >>> that has an upload field defined that links to the other database? >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> -- >>> 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+un...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- 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.
