unique=True assures the value is unique at the database level but does not add a form validator.
In addition to unique=True, you can add a validator like this: db.person.username.requires = IS_NOT_IN_DB(db, 'person.username') from the book: http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07/forms-and-validators#IS_NOT_IN_DB On Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 2:32:15 AM UTC-4, mfarees...@gmail.com wrote: > > Field('username', unique=True) > -- 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.