apart from replying to a 4 months old thread..... auto_import just imports .table files that are in the databases/* folder, so anything created strictly by web2py, i.e. exactly as described in the link
http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/6#Using-DAL-without-define-tables tl;dr : in web2py's DAL you MUST have a definition of every table you need to read/update/delete . DAL doesn't do any introspection about what tables are there yet in the database (i.e. created manually or with another framework) -- 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.