I think I found a bug in virtualfields. I have the following controller: def posts(): user = session.auth.user n = user.name # returns None
Where "person" is defined as a virtualfield on user: class Users(): def name(self): return self.users.first_name + ' ' + self.users.last_name db.users.virtualfields.append(Users()) The problem is that user.name returns None, because apparently the virtualfield isn't loaded into the session variable of user. I made this work with the following modification to the controller: def posts(): user = db.users[session.auth.user.id] n = user.name # returns the user name correctly! I just had to refetch the user from the database.