Hi Marlysson, thanks so much for the links you shared, they are very helpful. I actually read your previous post to another user suggesting to look into tools.py, i did, now i understand better after looking into the web2py.readthedocs API reference.
Thanks much Anthony, Marlysson. On Monday, April 10, 2017 at 11:31:00 PM UTC+8, Marlysson Silva wrote: > > There are this places.. > > https://github.com/web2py/web2py/blob/master/gluon/tools.py#L1487 > > > http://web2py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools.html?highlight=auth#gluon.tools.Auth > > Em domingo, 9 de abril de 2017 13:16:31 UTC-3, Rudy escreveu: >> >> 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. 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