You could create a custom formstyle function and then pass it to the grid
via the "formargs" argument or set response.formstyle.
Anthony
On Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 4:50:58 AM UTC-4, icodk wrote:
>
> Background
> My model has a table with many fields (62). When using smartgrid to edit
> or add a record, all fields are shown in a long vertical list in the same
> order as defined in the model. So log so good.
> This can be overwhelming to user that might need to see some of the fields
> very often and some others less frequently.
> One way to solve this could be to show the fields in separate tabs that
> groups the fields according to some designation. Here is an example
> Model:
>
> db.define_table('person',
> Field('first_name',tab='General', label=T('First name'),
> default='',length=50),
>
> Field('last_name',tab='General', label=T('Last name'),
> default='',length=50),
>
> Field('phone',tab='Advance',label=T('phone'), default=''),
>
> Field('visits',tab='Statistics','integer' label=T('Visits'),
> default=0))
>
>
> In the above model I added an imaginary tab property (which will cause en
> error in real application) to group fields with the same tab property
> under the same tab in a detail smartgrid form.
> To solve the order of the tabs, the call to the smartgrid will include a
> 'tab' property which will be a list with tabs.
>
> Another more flexible solution could be to add a 'tab ' property to
> smartgrid which will be a dictionary with tab names as keys and a lists of
> field names as values. This will allow also to order the fields on each
> tab and will not require any change to the existing define_table structure.
>
> Example:
> tabs={'General':['first_name','last_name'],'Advance':['phone'],
> 'Statistics':['visits']}
>
> I have this strange filling that this is already possible, may be
> something to do with formstyle.
> Any help will be appreciated
>
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