Its all good. Just asked. 

On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 3:33:00 PM UTC-4, Michael Beller wrote:
>
> No Avatar field yet!  It's hardcoded in the template.  It should be easy 
> to add a custom field to the auth_user table following these instructions:
>
> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/09/access-control?search=auth_user#Customizing-Auth
>
> Then you can upload an avatar using the user profile page.
>
> I haven't done this with images but it should be straight forward (it's on 
> my todo list!)
>
> You can also designate a dedicated folder for the avatar uploads so 
> they're not commingled with other upload files ...
>
> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07/forms-and-validators?search=upload#SQLFORM-and-uploads
>
> On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 3:03:41 PM UTC-4, Ron Chatterjee wrote:
>>
>> I am sorry, I was having some problem downloading the latest version so 
>> everything is good. Quick question Michael, how does someone change the 
>> profile picture? There is a avatar field?
>>
>> On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 11:56:27 AM UTC-4, Michael Beller wrote:
>>>
>>> The appconfig in 2.13 has a problem with strings separated by comma's in 
>>> the appconfig.ini file.  Starter app uses 2.14.1
>>>
>>> You can either install 2.14.1 or just change ...
>>>
>>> line 34 in initialize.py:
>>>         for group in myconf.get('admin_user.auth_groups'):
>>>
>>> could replace with
>>>         for group in ['Admin', 'Customer Service', 'Operations']:
>>>
>>> or just change the function to create the Admin group which is all 
>>> that's needed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Ron Chatterjee <achatte...@gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not sure its ready to be posted. I just downloaded the app and I don't 
>>>> see any initialization. My experience...it seems have some issues still 
>>>> (see the attached pic) . When I tried to register, I get this error:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Traceback *(*most recent call last
>>>> *):   *File "…\web2py\gluon\restricted.py"*, *line 227*, in *restricted
>>>>     *exec *ccode *in *environment
>>>>   File" …applications/starter/controllers/default.py" 
>>>> <http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/default/edit/starter/controllers/default.py>*,
>>>>  
>>>> *line 91*, in <*module
>>>> *>   *File "…web2py\gluon\globals.py"*, *line 412
>>>> *, in <lambda>     self.*_caller *= lambda *f*: *f
>>>> *()   *File …/starter/controllers/default.py" 
>>>> <http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/default/edit/starter/controllers/default.py>*,
>>>>  
>>>> *line 70*, in *user
>>>>     *return *dict*(*form*=*auth
>>>> *())   *File "…web2py\gluon\tools.py"*, *line 1923*, in *__call__
>>>>     *return *getattr*(self, *args*[*0
>>>> *])()   *File "…\tools.py"*, *line 3375*, in *register
>>>>     *self.*login_user*(*user
>>>> *)   *File "…web2py\gluon\tools.py"*, *line 2630*, in *login_user
>>>>     user *= *Row*(*user
>>>> *)   *File "…\helpers\classes.py"*, *line 18*, in *__init__
>>>>     *return self.*__dict__*.*__init__*(**args*, ***kwargs
>>>> *) *TypeError*: *'NoneType' object *is not *iterable
>>>>
>>>> Using 2.13.4 (which has a flash bar rash that just don't go away). 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 10:38:35 AM UTC-4, Michael Beller wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I commonly create a user (usually my email) and an Admin group and 
>>>>> then add myself to the Admin group.  I have logic in the Starter app 
>>>>> based 
>>>>> on the Admin group.  I usually have other groups such as Operations and 
>>>>> Customer Service (I tend to build enterprise 'line of business' apps).  
>>>>> Since I frequently clean out the database during initial development, I 
>>>>> just created an initialization function that automatically adds an 
>>>>> initial 
>>>>> set of test users, groups, and memberships so I don't have to do it 
>>>>> manually,   The Initialization function also calls a function that 
>>>>> automatically populates tables with test data (using the Populate 
>>>>> function) 
>>>>> that is helpful for quick demos during prototyping and user demos.  You 
>>>>> can 
>>>>> modify the routines to meet your needs - it's just something I always end 
>>>>> up creating so I put it in my scaffold app.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 9:13 AM, <rajjm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This may be little preliminary but what you mean by "Admin user and 
>>>>>> auth_groups" setup and how? I don't recall anything to set up with the 
>>>>>> welcome app. It worked the first time straight out of the box.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 8:56:22 AM UTC-4, Ron Chatterjee wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am looking at this link:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://almsaeedstudio.com/themes/AdminLTE/documentation/index.html. 
>>>>>>> Is that widget/plugin that comes with that bootstrap? Michael, you 
>>>>>>> familiar 
>>>>>>> with that?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It has something call direct chat. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 12:23:08 AM UTC-4, Michael Beller 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I plan to! When ready, I'd like to try and apply these styles
>>>>>>>> https://almsaeedstudio.com/themes/AdminLTE/pages/forms/general.html
>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>> to the new form.py and perhaps
>>>>>>>> https://almsaeedstudio.com/themes/AdminLTE/pages/tables/data.html
>>>>>>>> to the new grid.py
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 10:22:32 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di 
>>>>>>>> Pierro wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I am linking this from the new examples app. I assume you will be 
>>>>>>>>> maintaining it. for a while. :-)
>>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, 23 March 2016 19:38:22 UTC-5, Michael Beller wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Are you using 2.14.1 beta?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I would try to get it running without changes before making 
>>>>>>>>>> changes (unless you have a need to get it running on an old version 
>>>>>>>>>> of 
>>>>>>>>>> web2py).  As Massimo pointed out, it's not necessarily backward 
>>>>>>>>>> compatible 
>>>>>>>>>> but other than removing host_names (which I already did in the repo) 
>>>>>>>>>> I 
>>>>>>>>>> don't see why it wouldn't work on an older version (I also had to 
>>>>>>>>>> remove 
>>>>>>>>>> formstyle from appconfig to support an older version).
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I just installed a clean version using 
>>>>>>>>>> git clone https://github.com/mjbeller/web2py-starter.git starter
>>>>>>>>>> into 2.14.1 beta (actually current master) and then accessed
>>>>>>>>>> /initialize/adminuser 
>>>>>>>>>> <http://127.0.0.1:8000/starter2/initialize/adminuser> 
>>>>>>>>>> to setup Admin user and auth_groups and everything worked fine.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I'm still getting an odd error on 2.13.x which I can't figure out 
>>>>>>>>>> but I'm content to move forward with just 2.14.1
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 8:02:51 PM UTC-4, Ron Chatterjee 
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Got it. As always, thank you Massimo. 
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I changed in db1.py
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> auth.define_tables(username=True, signature=True)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> to 
>>>>>>>>>>> auth.define_tables(username=False, signature=True)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> But in  the log in it still ask me for user name. 
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Also I get an error when I try to register.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> pydal\helpers\classes.py", line 18, in __init__
>>>>>>>>>>>     return self.__dict__.__init__(*args, **kwargs)
>>>>>>>>>>> TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 7:32:18 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di 
>>>>>>>>>>> Pierro wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> You cannot do that. You have an app created with web2py 2.14.1 
>>>>>>>>>>>> beta and run it with an older version of web2py. myconf.get is not 
>>>>>>>>>>>> defined.
>>>>>>>>>>>> We only offer backward compatibility, not forward compatibility.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Massimo
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, 23 March 2016 18:12:58 UTC-5, Ron Chatterjee 
>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I copied the config file from private and changed this to 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> db1.py.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> auth = Auth(db, host_names=myconf.get('host.name'))
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I still don't get the app running. Any suggestions?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> web2py version running: 2.12.3
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 6:36:34 PM UTC-4, Dave S wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 3:01:24 PM UTC-7, Literate 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Aspects wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Rimas,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I thank you for the kind thoughts, but I simply don't have 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that luxury.  I read and I listen to the video tutorials, IF 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> they matched 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the current live app, then following the step by step 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> instructions would be 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> straight forward, but the live app does not match the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> instructions, so at 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> each step, one has to FIGURE out an unknown.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The only difference I recognized in the screen shots was that 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the book had 1 more line in the header comment.  The code lines 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you showed 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> seemed to match.  But recognize that the code included in the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Welcome app 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (which is the code that gets used if you pressed the "Make new 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> App" button 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on the Web2Py "console" page) can get changed every release; the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> book tends 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not to change as often.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Some of these changes are simplification, some are taking 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> advantage of new features, and some are corrections.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Going back to one of your earlier questions:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> def index(): return "Hello from MyApp"
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> differs from 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> def index(): return dict(message="Hello from MyApp")
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> in a basic Python way ... the first returns a string, the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> second returns a dictionary object, where the key "message" has 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the value 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Hello from MyApp:, which is a string.  The generic views that 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> come with 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Web2Py know how to render a string.  They also know how to 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> render values 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> retrieved from a dictionary.  Just about everything else is a 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> special case 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of those 2 basic capabilities.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The BEAUTIFY() helper Rimas mentioned is something that gets 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> executed on the server (in rendering the views) to generate HTML 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that shows 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> what's in the object given as it's argument.  If that argument 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is a 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dictionary like the above, it will render a short table showing 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the key 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ("message") and its value ("Hello From MyApp").
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Chapter 2 covers some Python basics, and general Python 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tutorials and books are available elsewhere.  If you're totally 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> new to 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> programming, than you may want to spend some time on those.  If 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you're used 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to C or C# or Java, Chapter 2 may be enough to get you started.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Good luck!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> /dps
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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