I do have writable=False and I understand that will work for normal forms, but it still shows up in appadmin
On Saturday, October 5, 2013 6:28:08 PM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: > If you don't want the user to see or be able to edit the created_on value, > just set readable=writable=False for that field. When an insert is done, > the default value set at the time of the insert request will be used. > > Anthony > > On Saturday, October 5, 2013 5:36:32 PM UTC-4, User wrote: >> >> When using default field value, if I add a record through appadmin, the >> default is populated in the form and therefore the actual database >> insertion time is not recorded but rather the form generation time. Is >> there a way around this? >> >> >> On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 8:57:35 AM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: >> >>> No, passing a table object into db.define_table() only copies the tables >>> fields, not its other attributes. Anyway, if you want to set the default >>> value for a field, you would do it using the "default" argument to Field(): >>> >>> standard_fields = db.Table(db, 'standard_fields', >>> Field('created_on', 'datetime', default=request.now)) >>> >>> You might also want to set writable=False. >>> >>> Anthony >>> >>> On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 11:26:08 PM UTC-4, User wrote: >>>> >>>> Using table inheritance to define a common set of fields. Given the >>>> following code: >>>> >>>> standard_fields = db.Table(db, 'standard_fields', >>>> Field('created_on', 'datetime'), >>>> ) >>>> standard_field._before_insert.append(lambda fields: fields['created_on' >>>> ] = request.now) >>>> >>>> db.define_table('payment', Field('amount', 'double'), standard_fields) >>>> >>>> will table payment inherit the _before_insert (or _before_update) >>>> behavior? I'm trying this but I think it may not inherit. If it doesn't, >>>> is the only option to specify the ._before_insert for each table? I >>>> want to add this to a number of tables. >>>> >>>> >>> -- 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/groups/opt_out.