Re: Cake 2.0 Virtual Fields

2011-12-06 Thread aries
Hey that works too, and is more elegant. Thanks for the suggestion! On Dec 5, 4:52 pm, euromark wrote: > ah thats what you mean > did you try setting $displayField of that model to "name"? > that should also work > > On 5 Dez., 19:04, aries wrote: > > > > > > > > > Solution: > > > In the Region

Re: Cake 2.0 Virtual Fields

2011-12-05 Thread euromark
ah thats what you mean did you try setting $displayField of that model to "name"? that should also work On 5 Dez., 19:04, aries wrote: > Solution: > > In the Regions controller, I have to specify the find fields, viz: > > $reporters = $this->Region->Reporter->find('list', array('fields' => > arr

Re: Cake 2.0 Virtual Fields

2011-12-05 Thread aries
Solution: In the Regions controller, I have to specify the find fields, viz: $reporters = $this->Region->Reporter->find('list', array('fields' => array('id', 'name'))); Thanks, -Brian On Dec 5, 11:45 am, aries wrote: > Hi there, > > Thanks for your response. I should have clarified my situatio

Re: Cake 2.0 Virtual Fields

2011-12-05 Thread aries
Hi there, Thanks for your response. I should have clarified my situation. I have a form for a related Region model (HABTM relationship) that calls $this->Form->input('Reporter'); to show a multi select list of Reporter records. I figured that adding a virtual name field called "name" would auto-po

Re: Cake 2.0 Virtual Fields

2011-12-03 Thread euromark
you might be doing sth wrong how are you processing the result? because Reporter__name is correct so far. cake will then automatically merge the content of this key back to the Model result array with the key "name". and then it should be available with $result['Reporter']['name'] since "name" an