On Friday, September 2, 2011 3:07:07 AM UTC-4, paroiron wrote: > > Thank you, > I'll probably do the math in my app, because I'd like to be able to > perform a search on the result (impossible with virtual fields, am I > right?). > > However, I think the text in the book is misleading : > "[...]if a value for the field is not provided, web2py tries to > compute from the other field values using the compute function." > Reading this, I understand that: > If a value is provided, then the compute attribute is ignored. >
Maybe that is referring to doing a manual insert or update (via .insert() or .update(), not via a form submission). Anthony
