On Dec 21, 2010, at 12:19 AM, John Fabiani wrote:

> Writing data to the array is not working.  
> 
> self.testbizobj.setFieldVal('pay_by_quarter[0]', 2000)
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
>  File "/home/johnf/dabo/dabo/biz/dBizobj.py", line 1631, in setFieldVal
>    ret = cursor.setFieldVal(fld, val, row)
>  File "/home/johnf/dabo/dabo/db/dCursorMixin.py", line 962, in setFieldVal
>    _("Field '%s' does not exist in the data set.") % (fld,))
> FieldNotFoundException: Field 'pay_by_quarter[0]' does not exist in the data 
> set.
> 
> I suspected this because Dabo is looking for real field and not list.
> 
> but this works
> self.testbizobj.setFieldVal('pay_by_quarter',[2000,3000,4000,5000])
> self.testbizobj.save()


        Close, but...

        setFieldVal() takes the column name as its first argument; 
'pay_by_quarter[0]' is not the name of the column; 'pay_by_quarter' is. That's 
why the second form works.



-- Ed Leafe



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