In my case, I have records with 2 fields, A & B; I want one record to be displayed for each distinct value of A when B is either 1 or 2, but it is possible that each will be present, so I use groupby A to avoid duplication.
I tried using a smartgrid, but it exhibited the same groupby/add behavior (although maybe I could use its constraint parameter to accomplish this without using groupby). - Scott On Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 11:11:58 AM UTC-5, Anthony wrote: > > This is tricky. Write operations (as well as the details view) are > disabled with groupby because the rows in the grid do not necessarily > represent individual records. Of course, that shouldn't necessarily > preclude adding new records, but from a user perspective, we have to think > of what is meant by "Add" in the context of a table that is displaying > aggregated data rather than individual records. Are you adding a new row to > the grid (which doesn't quite make sense) or a new individual record to the > table used to generate the grid (sensible, but maybe not as clear)? > > I don't have a strong opinion, but I suppose it wouldn't be a bad idea to > at least allow the developer the option of enabling create with groupby. In > that case, though, we might have to default to create=False for backward > compatibility. > > Feel free to file a Github issue and refer to this thread. > > Anthony > > On Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 8:53:45 AM UTC-5, Scott Hunter wrote: >> >> I have a SQLFORM.grid in which I would like to use groupby as well as be >> able to create records. But when I supply the groupby parameter, the Add >> Record button disappears, and can be made to re-appear if the only thing I >> change is remove the groupby parameter. >> >> Is this a bug? If it is a feature, can someone explain the reasoning >> behind it, and how I would best work around it? >> >> - Scott >> > -- 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.
