I assign each user either group A or B, and by default web2py assign users to the user_%d groups. I would like to query which users are in groups A, B, and NULL so that (1) I can verify each user is in the right group and (2) no users are in zero groups.
I have this controller users = db(~db.auth_group.role.like('user%')).select(db.auth_user.id, db. auth_user.first_name, db.auth_user.last_name, db.auth_group.role, left=(db.auth_membership.on(db.auth_user.id==db.auth_membership. user_id), db.auth_group.on(db.auth_membership.group_id==db.auth_group.id)), orderby=db.auth_user.id|db.auth_group.id) response.flash=db._lastsql return dict(users=users) Which generates this SQL SELECT auth_user.id ,auth_user.first_name ,auth_user.last_name ,auth_group.ROLE FROM auth_user LEFT JOIN auth_membership ON (auth_user.id = auth_membership.user_id) LEFT JOIN auth_group ON (auth_membership.group_id = auth_group.id) WHERE (NOT (auth_group.ROLE LIKE 'user%' ESCAPE '\')) ORDER BY auth_user.id ,auth_group.id; However, users with no groups are omitted. I could use something more like this: SELECT auth_user.id ,auth_user.first_name ,auth_user.last_name ,auth_group.ROLE FROM auth_user LEFT JOIN auth_membership ON (auth_user.id = auth_membership.user_id) LEFT JOIN auth_group ON auth_membership.group_id = auth_group.id and NOT auth_group.ROLE LIKE 'user%' ORDER BY auth_user.id ,auth_group.id; I could use executesql(), but I am trying to not give up too easily on the DAL. Also, using DAL it's easy to use SQLTABLE in the view. -- 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/d/optout.