Assuming you have the record id of the current user from the 'user_table' table, maybe something like:
Field('x', default=db.user_table[id of current user].default_x) You cannot just refer to the field (which doesn't identify the specific user) -- you have to select the specific value for this user. Anthony On Saturday, December 10, 2011 4:34:33 PM UTC-5, tsvim wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have 1 table with a lot of fields. Some of them, I want to have a > default value dependent on the user. > In the user table I have a field called default_x. I tried setting the > default for field x in the data table to 'user_table.default_x'. Which did > not work. > Any ideas how to achieve this functionality? >