thanks that worked a treat! So was that done using jquery? I still have to
learn about it

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 5:39 PM Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, September 13, 2018 at 8:36:11 AM UTC-4, Marcelo Huerta wrote:
>>
>> El jueves, 13 de septiembre de 2018, 8:10:48 (UTC-3), Matthew J Watts
>> escribió:
>>>
>>> Hello all
>>>
>>> Is there a way  to pre populate the  'search field' of the SQLFORM.grid?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> In your URL to the function containing the grid, you can pass the search
>> string in the vars dictionary. Just assign it to the "keywords" key.
>>
>
> That's the way to go if you want the grid to show the actual results of
> the search. If you want the standard set of records but simply want to
> pre-populate the search box, you can do:
>
>  grid = SQLFORM.grid(db.mytable)
>  search_input = grid.element('#w2p_keywords')
>  if search_input:
>      search_input['_value'] = 'My keywords'
>
> Anthony
>
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