You can make something like this work you should not. It is a security vulnerability to have a editable hidden field because it does not prevent the client from editing. In web2py you should never need something like this. Just make the field invisible:
db.Dinners.Latitude.readable=False db.Dinners.Latitude.writable=False On Aug 9, 3:12 pm, Rob <r...@rmdashr.com> wrote: > after > reading:https://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_frm/thread/bd7b06b759c9... > > It looks like what I can do is this: > db.Dinners.Latitude.widget=lambda > field,value:SQLFORM.widgets.StringWidget.widget(field,value,_type="hidden") > > Will this work? I'll test when I get home tonight. > > On Aug 7, 10:21 pm, Rob <r...@rmdashr.com> wrote: > > > I have a model that has a 'Address', 'Lat' and "Lon' field. When the > > user enters an address, some javascript currently populates the 'Lat' > > and 'Lon' fields and they get inserted into the DB via crud.create() > > or crud.update(). > > > How do I hide these fields from the user, but allow the JS to insert > > the correct values? Idealy, I would like to turn these fields from > > input fields to hidden fields. > > > Possible? > > > just for reference: > > model: > > db.define_table('Dinners', > > Field('Address', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()), > > Field('Latitude', 'double'), # <== I want this to be a hidden > > field > > Field('Longitude', 'double')) # <== I want this to be a hidden > > field > > > controller: > > def Create(): > > crud.settings.formstyle='table2cols' > > form = crud.create(db.Dinners) > > return dict(form=form) > > > view: > > {{=form}} > > > Thanks!
