On Sunday, October 7, 2012 4:57:06 PM UTC-4, Niphlod wrote: > that's because web2py doesn't know what you expect to be filled in your > model. If you add the requires= bit to your "type" field, then > automatically web2py will turn that field into a SELECT with the correct > options. >
It won't do that in this case -- that only happens when SQLFORM builds the form fields based on table fields. In this case, he is manually adding a field to the form after SQLFORM creates the form. Anthony --