customizing field's visibility in user's profile

[Vlad]

I added a few fields to auth_user, but they are for internal usage, so I don't want users to see those when they are logged in. How do I manage the visibility of the fields in the user profile?

[Jim S]

Can you just set readable and writable to False?

-Jim

[Gaurav Vichare]

In controllers/default.py, inside user function set readable and writable to False for the fields that you want to hide.

def user():

    db.auth_user.field_name.readable = False
    db.auth_user.field_name.writable = False

    return dict(form=auth())

[Vlad]

Thank you, Jim, I was aware of this parameter, but I wasn't sure where exactly to set it. But just got the answer. Thank you very much.

[Vlad]

Got it, thank you very much!