Agree. I will take a patch
On Jan 30, 8:51 am, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, January 29, 2012 7:36:07 PM UTC-5, HittingSmoke wrote: > > > I'd like to use auth with only a username instead of first and last > > name. I defined my own tables without a first and last name but it > > still causes issues throughout the app. > > > For instance, when I try to use appadmin to add a user to a new auth > > group I get an error (<type 'exceptions.KeyError'> 'first_name') if > > there is no first and last name fields in the database. If I create > > them but make them unreadable and unwritable the page will load but > > all of the entries in the User ID dropdown say "None None (user ID > > #)". > > The default validator for auth_permission.user_id and auth_event.user_id is: > > IS_IN_DB(db, '%s.id' % settings.table_user_name, > '%(first_name)s %(last_name)s (%(id)s)') > > After calling auth.define_tables(), you can change those to: > > db.auth_permission.user_id.requires = IS_IN_DB(db, '%s.id' % > settings.table_user_name, '%(username)s (%(id)s)') > > Perhaps this should happen automatically when the first_name and last_name > fields are not included in auth_user. > > The auth Welcome bar is also fixed to the first name field and if not > > > used it will says Welcome, None. > > You can easily replace the navbar by removing auth.navbar from the > layout.html view and replacing it with a custom navbar. However, we should > make auth.navbar more customizable. Please open an issue > (http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list) and reference this thread. > > Anthony
