On Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 3:24:38 PM UTC-4, Tom Campbell wrote: > > Thanks, Dmitry--some questions. > > 1. What does "will take no view" mean for the showtasks() method? > > If you return a string or HTML helper object (which includes the grid), web2py will not look for/execute a view but will simply return the string or serialized helper directly, so there is no need for a view.
> > 1. Why are .load extensions not recommended? There seems to be some > history on the list but I don't understand the issues. > > The reason you might want to use a .load extension (or any alternative to the default .html) is in case the same action gets called as a standard HTML page as well as an Ajax component that gets loaded within a page -- that way you can have two different views (in the later case, you would typically not extend the layout.html view). The issue to consider is that when using the URL() function without specifying an extension, the extension of the current action is propagated, so uses of URL() within a .load action will have a .load URL, which you may or may not want (if you don't want the .load extension to propagate, you can simply set extension=False). Anthony -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- 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/d/optout.
