Sorry Anthony, i just checked, your suggestion works when i have accounting and ticketing systems sharing the same auth's tables, basically it just uses the 'user' action under accounting controller to do all the authentication.
Appreciate if you can provide pointer for more info about Auth() arguments. Thanks! On Monday, April 10, 2017 at 12:09:44 AM UTC+8, Rudy wrote: > > Hi Anthony, > > Thanks again, it works. Now it leads to another question - my application > has accounting system and ticketing system sharing the same auth's tables. > The 2 systems are in different controllers namely accounting & ticketing. > All my accounting view htmls extend layout_accounting.html, all the > ticketing view htmls extend layout_ticketing.html, inside these layout > files, they include their corresponding menu i.e. response.menu_accounting, > response.menu_ticketing. If i use your suggestion below, it will work well > for accounting but not for ticketing under the same application. How should > I address it? > > Could you tell me where I find the definition/documentation of Auth()'s > arguments? What does function='user' do here? Many thanks in advance! > > On Sunday, April 9, 2017 at 11:48:43 PM UTC+8, Anthony wrote: >> >> auth = Auth(..., controller='accounting', function='user') >> >> Anthony >> >> On Sunday, April 9, 2017 at 11:13:33 AM UTC-4, Rudy wrote: >>> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I have created an accounting application, say the landing page is >>> http://localhost:8000/tests/accounting/index. I need to change the link >>> under "LOG IN" dropdown menu on top right corner to >>> http://...../tests/accounting/user/login instead of using >>> http://...../tests/default/user/login. I thought it was pretty common & >>> simple, after I read a few posts on webypy-users group, I still don't know >>> how to change it. Below is what I have tried: >>> >>> 1) Found below suggestion from Massimo, i commented out {{='auth' in >>> globals() and auth.navbar('Welcome', mode='dropdown') or ''}}, and added >>> below in layout.html >>> {{if auth.user:}} >>> <a href="{{=URL('accounting','user/logout')}}">Logout</a> >>> {{else:}} >>> <a href="{{=URL('accounting','user/login')}}">Login</a> >>> <a >>> href="{{=URL('accounting','user/register')}}">Register</a> >>> <a >>> href="{{=URL('accounting','user/retrieve_password')}}">Lost Password</a> >>> {{pass}} >>> By doing above, I went >>> to http://...../tests/accounting/user/login form, once I filled the form >>> and clicked the blue "LOG IN" button (the authentication went through), it >>> redirected to http://..../tests/default/login#, same issue happened when I >>> logged out. How can I tell web2py where the next_url is? Or should I take >>> this approach at all to address my original question? If this is the way to >>> do it, any easy way to make it as dropdown menu instead of just links? >>> >>> 2) Then i tried to understand better how auth.navbar works by looking >>> into tools.py under gluon. I found navbar takes an argument action, i >>> modified it in layout.html to {{='auth' in globals() and >>> auth.navbar('Welcome', action='/tests/accounting/user', mode='dropdown') or >>> ''}}. I went to the correct form when I clicked the LOG IN link, the >>> redirect went to the correct controller and action, but only when I logged >>> out, the var _next pointed to and redirected to the default controller >>> again - ?_next=/tests/default/index. How do i fix it? What does the >>> argument "referred_action" do? >>> >>> 3) I mixed point 1 above and Anthony suggestion - added point 1 above in >>> layout.html, so that it went to correct login form, then I added below in >>> tests/accounting/user action: >>> form = auth() >>> if request.args(0) == 'login': >>> form['_action'] = URL(args=request.args) >>> The behaviour went exactly like point 1 above >>> >>> I thought most applications would change this authentication urls, there >>> must be a better way to configure it, I already spent the weekend on it. >>> Any pointers are much appreciated. >>> >> -- 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.
