Hello Seraaj 1) You can still use SQLFORM if you want, just preset the widget and use the fields parameter of SQLFORM to filter:
def someaction(): db.table.fieldX.widget = SQLFORM.widgets.autocomplete(request, ...) form = SQLFORM(db.table, fields=['fieldX',], ...) if form.validate(): # do something with the form's data or you can use SQLFORM.factory: form = SQLFORM.factory( db.table.fieldX.clone(...) ) 2) Set the default for the is_default field to False and check if there is a record in the db with is_default==True and a different id that the current insert/update in the accepted portion of your form processing, and set it to False. Denes. On Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 6:33:56 PM UTC-5, Seraaj Muneer wrote: > > Hello everyone from Accra Ghana. > > I've a small issue I'm not sure how to go about. > > I've a number of companies in the database. What I want to do is create a > form with just a select field containing the companies in the database, and > naturally a submit button to post the form to a controller. How do I use > the Autocomplete widget outside of SQLForm? Is it even possible? If not, > how do I represent the list of companies in HTML in a way that the user > will not have to scroll endlessly to select a company as would be the case > with a traditional HTML select? > > Also every company entity in the database has a boolean field, > 'is_default', now how do I make sure only one company has 'is_default' set > to True? So all others have it as False? Also if upon inserting or updating > a company, the new or updated record has 'is_default' set to True, then I > want to set that of all other companies as False. > > > > > Thanks > > > -- 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.