(newbie to both web2py and python - please be gentle) I am trying to use two menu selection items to control a view and I need guidance on the general strategy one should use. Intuitively (to me) this seems like it should be easy, but I have made various attempts, all of which fail in different ways. So, I assume I am approaching this in the wrong way. I would like one selection to set something that controls the type of the charts that will be displayed, and a second to control the actual content of the charts (country). I thought I might do this by simply replacing the URL() in response.menu with a call to my own function that sets a global variable then calls the URL helper, but I am not having any luck. I can get the controller and view to work with hard coded global variables, so I think the problem is in menu.py (but could be missing the big picture). The relevant part of menu.py is
ChartType = 'Recent' Country='US' def setChartType(x): global ChartType ChartType=x URL('default', 'Country',) return() def getChartType(): return(ChartType) def setCountry(x): global Country Country=x return(URL('default', 'Country')) def getCountry(): return(Country) response.menu = [ (I('xxx'), False, URL('default','index'), []) ] def _(): app = request.application ctr = request.controller response.menu+=[ (SPAN('View',_style='color:yellow'),False, None, [ (T('by Country'),False,None, [ (T('Canada'),False, setCountry('Canada'),), (T('US'),False, setCountry('US'),), ]), ]), (SPAN('Chart Type',_style='color:yellow'),False, None, [ (T('Recent'),False, setChartType('Recent'),), (T('Historical'),False,setChartType('Historical'),), ]), ] _() Will this strategy work with small tweaks, or am I missing something big? Related, I can see that I might be able to do this using AJAX. There seems to be some overlap between things that could be done directly within the web2py/python framework, and things that might be done with AJAX. What are the main reasons one would usually choose one or the other? Thanks, Paul -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.