On Sunday, December 24, 2017 at 8:23:59 AM UTC-8, Ray Leon wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have been working on a project for a while now and am struggling to > figure out a solution to tracking/logging user downloads.. > > The download links are placed directly into the Upload_file column and > printed out using SQLFORM.grid , as seen below. > > Upload File Ref Letter (e.g. aa)DescriptionUpload By Upload > Date Filename > Download File None None Leon Grant > 2017-12-13 17:32:25 test_doc_2.txt > As you can see, the table also stores the original filename. What I need > is to be able to return the row ID or Filename upon clicking the > "Download File" link. Does anybody have any ideas as to how I can > accomplish this given the current setup, or do I need to change the format > and go another route completely? > > Here is some of my code.. I know that grid can track the row.id as I have > inserted a test "link" to view the ID. I just need to be able to > combine the two somehow so the user can get their file and I can return > the file name for logging.. >
Do the sections at http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07/forms-and-validators#SQLFORM-and-uploads and <URL:http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/09/access-control#Authorization-and-downloads> help any? For a field of type "upload", the default download function will check the authorize attribute, which can be a function; it gets passed the record and that can be checked for record id. > [...[ > If you roll your own upload field, the answer may not be as easy, but I haven't explored that. /dps -- 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.
