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@bridget

If you’re using the Users Service, you can also customise your @anvil.server.callable decorators inside your Server Modules to check that a user is logged in:

Anvil.users.get_user() and security

I didn’t know that.

I don’t think this is listed in the docs.
It could also be included in the api documenation I don’t think callable is even listed there.

anvil.server

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suggested enhancement to the advanced section of anvil.server.callable
on how to use decorators to validate users and user privileges

Add decorator hint to default comment in Server modules

I mean - I think this is overkill… one of the first things I do, whenever I open a new module, is delete the comments… For new users that seems too much to me. Especially since they might not have met decorators yet… IMO those comments should be enough to get started. Perhaps a better place would be to add them to the docs in the advanced section… Which is linked whenever you click the top level of the server module… [Screen Shot 2020-04-28 at 08.07.48] As a note I also prefer using fro…

this often comes up in the forum but isn’t in the docs.