I've been working through the book and have encountered exactly the same problem. The query has a spurious 'list_records' in front of it.
book is http://www.web2py.com/book/default/chapter/07?search=URL web2py version is the latest 1.97.1 running under windows 7 -Andy On Jul 12, 10:08 pm, jc <j-cl...@lineone.net> wrote: > Hi, > Trying to use linkto, so following example in web2py > book<http://www.web2py.com/book/default/chapter/07#Links-to-Referencing-Re...> > first, > to try to understand. > > I have copied the example with person and dog tables, in particular in def > display_form(): I have > > link = URL('list_records') > form = SQLFORM(db.person, record, deletable=True, > upload=url, linkto=link, labels = {'dog.owner':"This > person's dogs"}) > > as described in the book. > > The books says the link generated will be > "/test/default/list_records/dog?query=dog.owner%3D5" but in fact the link > which appears when I visit /test/default/display_form/1 is > "/test/default/list_records/dog?query=list_records.dog.owner%3D%3D1", i.e. > there is a spurious list.records and a spurious %3D. Not surprisingly the > link doesn't work. Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong? > > Thanks.
