Some instruction about creating custom widgets at the end of this section:
http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07/forms-and-validators#Widgets.
On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 12:33:22 AM UTC-5, Kiran Subbaraman wrote:
>
> Yes, that works: use request.vars.*. That was the option which I had
> mentioned I may need to resort to, since *keepvalues *doesn't seem to
> work for me.
> This basically comes down to me creating a bunch of widgets; mirroring the
> ones in web2py, where a widget would have logic, similar to the one below,
> in it.
> I need to figure out how to create a widget now. Am familiar with creating
> jsp tag libraries, and dojo widgets.
>
> <input type="text" class="form-control
> {{if form.errors.country:}}invalidinput{{pass}}"
> id="country" name="country"
> value="{{=request.vars.country or
> form.custom.inpval['country']}}"
> placeholder="{{=form.custom.comment['country']}}"
>
> Thanks for your inputs,
> Kiran
>
> ________________________________________
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>
> On 1/14/2014 1:23 AM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
> Strange. How about
>
> {{=request.vars.country or form.custom.inpval['country']}}
>
> On Monday, 13 January 2014 11:13:33 UTC-6, subbaram...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Massimo,
>> Yes, I did. Does not make a difference.
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion,
>> Kiran
>>
>> On Monday, January 13, 2014 7:49:15 PM UTC+5:30, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>>
>>> Have you tried replacing
>>>
>>> value="{{=form.custom.inpval['country']}}"
>>>
>>> with
>>>
>>> value="{{=form.custom.dspval['country']}}"
>>>
>>> On Sunday, 12 January 2014 22:50:43 UTC-6, subbaram...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Really would like some help with this. Anyone have suggestions?
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Kiran
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday, January 11, 2014 12:10:07 AM UTC+5:30,
>>>> subbaram...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello All,
>>>>> The *design *is: I have a custom form with the a controller that
>>>>> inserts/updates a table. Tthe form accepts data, and on successful
>>>>> submission of this form, it stays on the same page (there are no
>>>>> redirects
>>>>> to another page or form)
>>>>> *Issue*: The problem am seeing is, when I update values in the form,
>>>>> and submit it, the entered values are lost when the form returns because
>>>>> of
>>>>> successful submit, or due to errors. I have tried to use keepvalues=True
>>>>> in
>>>>> the form.accepts() and form.process() methods. No luck.
>>>>> Details below.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since the page am building has specific design needs, I went with the
>>>>> option of a custom form, where I used the form.custom.* options quite a
>>>>> bit. Therefore input fields in the form look like this
>>>>> <input type="text" class="form-control
>>>>> {{if form.errors.country:}}invalidinput{{pass}}"
>>>>> id="country" name="country"
>>>>> value="{{=form.custom.inpval['country']}}"
>>>>> placeholder="{{=form.custom.comment['country']}}"
>>>>>
>>>>> Also the controller is coded as below
>>>>> x = db(db.x.x_id == auth.user.id).select().first()
>>>>> if x:
>>>>> form = SQLFORM(db.x, record=x)
>>>>> else:
>>>>> form = SQLFORM(db.x)
>>>>> pass
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> # process the form
>>>>> if form.accepts(request.vars, formname='basicinfo_form',keepvalues
>>>>> =True):
>>>>> response.flash = 'Basic Information updated successfully.'
>>>>> elif form.errors:
>>>>> response.flash = 'The submitted form contains errors. The
>>>>> fields in error are highlighted below.'
>>>>> else:
>>>>> response.flash = 'Please fill the form.'
>>>>> pass
>>>>>
>>>>> return dict(form=form)
>>>>>
>>>>> I was thinking that maybe I should capture the request.vars and send
>>>>> it back to the view alongwith the form.
>>>>> If the request.vars.country value exists, then I use that, instead of
>>>>> the form.custom.inpval['country']. This only makes the view code a bit
>>>>> more
>>>>> verbose, but if it solves the problem, then nothing like it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone suggest what I could do to sort this out?
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>> Kiran
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S: I did take a look at all the conversations in the forum about
>>>>> keepvalues. None of them seemed to help me. Though I did find this one to
>>>>> be interesting and am curious if this is sorted out already:
>>>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/web2py/keepvalues$20on$20validate/web2py/MNEYo96Shzg/jjKZaMmfAgQJ
>>>>>
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