Hi Anthony, Thanks for your reply. I changed my code to:
db[table].navID.widget = lambda f, v: SQLFORM.widgets.options.widget(f, v, _disabled=True) ... form = SQLFORM(table, record, deletable=deletable, showid=False) request.post_vars.navID = record.navID This solves the valiadtion issue, however, it renders the drop down without the form-control selector: <select id="nav_vertex_nav_navID" class="generic_widget" name=navID" disabled=disabled> whereas it should be rendered : <select id="nav_vertex_nav_navID" class="generic_widget form-control" name=navID" disabled=disabled> This also happens when the form contains an error, I solved this by adding these lines of code: elif form.errors: if form.element('select[name=navID]'): form.element('select[name=navID]').update(_class='generic-widget form-control') I have the following validator on the navID field: def set_requirement(nav_vertex_nav): db.nav_vertex_nav.navID.requires=[IS_IN_DB(db, 'nav_nav.id', '%(id)s %(name)s'), IS_NOT_IN_DB(db(db.nav_vertex_nav.vertexID==request.vars.vertexID), 'nav_vertex_nav.navID')] On this field: Field('navID', 'reference nav_nav', default='', ondelete='CASCADE', notnull=True, widget=SQLFORM.widgets.options.widget) Since the field is disabled in the form I could replace it with: db[table].navID.requires = IS_IN_DB(db, 'nav_nav.id', '%(id)s %(name)s', something = lambda do something) don't I? I wasn't able to figure out how to code the lambda .... Kind regards, Annet -- 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.