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.
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>

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