Yes, guys thanks. I realized that that was the culprit this morning. Hard to decode with beer fogging your thoughts... :P
Reverted to the original and all is working again. I forgot I was testing that line from a code in the book. On May 9, 11:01 pm, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, May 9, 2011 10:45:36 AM UTC-4, niknok wrote: > > > I have these lines that is supposed to update a record but it doesn't: > > > db.card.validated.writable=True > > db.card.modified_by.writable=True > > > > db.card(db.card.alnum==c_hash).update(validated=True,modified_by=auth.user. > > id) > > > Is there anything I missed? I tried to include a manual db.commit(), but > > that didn't work either. > > You can use the db.card(db.card.alnum==c_hash) notation to fetch a row > (though I think you have to include the record ID as the first argument), > but I'm not sure you can use it to update a record. For that, you may have > to use the usual query notation: db(db.card.alum==c_hash).update(...). You > might also be able to use your original notation along with update_record, > but I don't see any reason to prefer that over the usual method. > > Anthony
