Thanks Anthony, will look into the areas you mentioned! :)
On Jan 8, 12:35 am, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Can "default" be equal to a variable dependent on another field in the > > same table? > > I haven't looked at your original question in detail, but regarding the > above question about defaults, no, they can't be dependent on other fields > in the same table (though they can be dependent on request.vars, including > request.vars that have been submitted to fill other fields in the table). > An alternative is to set the "compute" attribute of the field, which can > (and is intended to) depend on other fields in the table > (seehttp://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/6#Computed-fields). You can > insert a value directly into the field, but if no value is provided, it > will compute a value according to the compute function. Note, by default > computed fields are not shown in SQLFORMs, though you can explicitly list > them among the fields to be shown. > > Anthony
