Hello ChrisT, it is possible but I am not sure I have seen a recipe posted for this. I will try write one next week and post it, perhaps sooner.
Massimo On Mar 4, 3:30 am, ChrisT <christostopou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am in the process of evaluating web2py and django to decide which > one I am going to use for a project of mine. > I am new to both frameworks and web frameworks in general (although I > did experiment with Ruby on Rails a while back) > I must say I am learning web2py much faster than Django which has a > much steeper learning curve I think. > For the past few days however I am trying to figure out the best way > to do a (relatively) simple thing with both frameworks that I guess > many people did before me. > I wanted to have multiple forms grouped as one on a sigle page and a > jquery plugin allowing clients to add and remove forms on the client- > side. > This would be very useful in many situations in my application. > One example would be: > * Creating an invoice (table invoice with fields such as > reference_no , issue_date, customer_name, etc.) with multiple invoice > lines (table invoice_line with fields such as description, amount, > etc.) > So I need to create a single form for the invoice creation and the > client must be able to add or remove from the form as many > invoice_lines as needed each time. > The fact is that I was able to figure the best way to do it in Django > would be using > formsets:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/formsets/ > and this:http://code.google.com/p/django-dynamic-formset/jQuery > pluging > I am troubled I didn't find anything similar implemented in web2py, I > am sure many people before me did the same thing using both > frameworks. I found some pieces of code here and there that enabled me > to come close to doing it using web2py but I consider my efforts a > hack (and an incomplete one so far :-)) > I would like to know your opinions on how this should be done in > web2py or how someone already did this. > Please forgive my ignorance if I am missing the obvious here as I am > new to all this. In fact this is my first post so go easy on me... > > Regards, > ChrisT
