Glad to share. It's the same method used by the grid to parse requests. I copped it from the source code.
There's a lot to be learned from the grid/smartgrid source code. On Dec 15, 7:33 pm, Nik Go <nikolai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Great! Thanks Cliff > > > > > > > > On Thursday, December 15, 2011, Cliff wrote: > > You can differentiate based on the request, like this: > > > if len(request.args) > 2 and request.args[-3] == 'edit': > > fields = [] # what you want to show for editing > > else: > > fields = [] # what you want to show on the initial grid > > > form=SQLFORM.grid(blah, ... fields=fields ...) > > > This is handy for lots of things. Beware of this, though: > > > if len(request.args) > 1 and request.args[-2]=='new': > > > Anyway, you get the picture. > > > On Dec 14, 11:19 pm, Nik Go <nikolai...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > Is there a parameter to specify initial fields to display in a grid and > > > still display the rest of the viewable fields only when the record is > > > accessed? > > > > For example, I would like the grid to initially show: field1, field2, > > > field3,field4 but when the view button is clicked it will display all > > > viewable fields field5, field6, field7, fieldetc. > > > > Tried the fields parameter, but after hitting the view button it only > > > displays the specified fields.
