You need to create your own widget
db.name.church.widget=select_or_create
The widget make an ajax request to create. You can look the source
code of existing widgets in gluon/sqlhtml.py
On Mar 11, 10:34 am, Kent Borg <kentb...@borg.org> wrote:
> Consider linked data:
>
> db.define_table('church',
> SQLField('name', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY())
> db.define_table('person',
> SQLField('name', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY(),
> SQLField('church'), db.person)
>
> And the easy thing to do is then SQLFORM(db.person). Cool.
>
> OK, so what about when doing data entry at the international conference
> of something religious.
>
> Is there a way to easily enter a new church at the same time as entering
> a new person? That is, a way to somehow click on a person form and
> inserts in the same view a subordinate form for entering a church?
>
> Maybe the user interface would look like:
>
> - adding to the church select-one a popup an "Add..." item
> - when the "Add..." item is selected show a second form in the same
> view (for entering the linked data, in this case church).
>
> Is there a way to add a customized item to a select-one popup menu?
>
> And, to further cause trouble, instead of a menu, is there a way to do
> an Ajax type search for the church (there are a lot of churches in the
> world) instead of a mile-long menu? (I suppose with button next to it
> saying "Create new..." that reveals the second form.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> -kb
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