Thanks for the suggestions. I tried both, but I still cannot get it to
work. I think I have it isolated to the fact that the textbox i am
trying to use autocomplete on is loaded in a view using the LOAD
command. In fact it is the technique I am using is identical to the
tagging widget. IS it possible to use the autocomplete widget in this
manner?
On Oct 17, 4:13 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> SQLFORM.factory(Field('item_cat'),widget=SQLFORM.widget.autocomplete(reques t,
> db.cat.name))
>
> or
>
> SQLFORM.factory(Field('item_cat',db.cat),widget=SQLFORM.widget.autocomplete
> (request,
> db.cat.name, id_field=db.cat.id) )
>
> On Oct 17, 2:50 pm, "david.waldrop" <david.wald...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > some minor progress. The following now lets thge loaded component
> > work, but does not do the autocomplete .
>
> > addform =
> > SQLFORM.factory(Field('item_cat'),widget=SQLFORM.widget.autocomplete(reques
> > t,
> > db.cat.name, id_field=db.cat.id) )
>
> > Is there something special I need to do to get the autocomplete to
> > work inside a loaded component?
>
> > On Oct 17, 2:24 pm, "david.waldrop" <david.wald...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I have now tried this
>
> > > addform =
> > > SQLFORM.factory(Field('item_cat'),widget=autocomplete(request,
> > > db.cat.name, id_field=db.cat.id) )
>
> > > but it doesn't work either.
>
> > > On Oct 17, 10:58 am, "david.waldrop" <david.wald...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > I have a form created with SQLFORM.factory containing a single field
>
> > > > addform = SQLFORM.factory(Field('item_cat'))
>
> > > > Is there a way to use the autocomplete widget. I have searched and
> > > > seen examples where I set the widget in the model, but do cannot find
> > > > an example of how to associate the autocomplete widget with a field
> > > > when using SQLFORM.factory.
>
> > > > I did get it to work in the model bu using something like the
> > > > following: db.itemcat.cat_ref.widget =
> > > > SQLFORM.widgets.autocomplete(request, db.cat.name, id_field=db.cat.id)
>
> > > > I am sure someone has done this and very much would love to see an
> > > > example.
