On Saturday, September 8, 2012 12:14:16 PM UTC-4, lyn2py wrote: > > Thanks Anthony for stepping up. > > I have a views file, it has quite a chunk of html in it. If I could put it > in the controller, I would, but it's quite hefty. > > I have about 15 fields, displayed via SQLFORM, just a simple > form = SQLFORM(db.table) > > I want to insert a {{include html_file}} in the middle, and I've tried > form[0].insert(7,'{{include "template.html"}}') >
Try: form[0].insert(7, XML(response.render('path/to/template.html', dict(var1='something'),othervar ='something else'))) response.render() will render a template and return the HTML as a string. You should wrap the response in XML() so the text doesn't get escaped. The path to the template should be relative to the /views folder. The second argument can be a dict -- the items in the dict will be available as variables in the view environment (just like when a controller function returns a dict). You can also add additional keyword arguments, which will also get added to the view environment. Anthony --