Hi all: I've stumbled across something I can't find relevant documentation for, so I'm hoping someone can help me with this.
I've got several complex forms (when I say "complex", I guess I mean that they deal with groups of related items - for example, I have a list of schools that someone will have attended, where for each entry there's the name of the school, the level at which the education is being conducted (university, high/secondary school, etc.), start and end dates, and so on. Basically, I'm using variable_decode() a lot to group items together). Each form lists all of the existing entries for a given type of data (such as a spell in a school/university as described above) in tabular form, and leaves a blank set of fields at the bottom for users to add another row to the table, so to speak. There are two different submit buttons for the form; one deletes any entries where the related checkbox is ticked, and the other saves any updates to the database. The big thing I want to do is something pretty fundamental, really - in the event that the validation fails, or if someone deletes an entry having made changes to another, that the form comes back to the user with his/her unsaved changes intact. I've looked at formhelpers, which doesn't look like it plays nice with forms that don't have a fixed number of fields, and htmlfill looks promising, but I can't quite see how exactly I'm supposed to do what I need in this instance - I've got the added gotcha that the dict returned by variable_decode can be a couple of levels deep - for example, the validation for the start and end dates I described above includes a check to see if the start date is before the end date, and this is separate to the body of the main "row" validator, so I can end up with form_result['entry'][0]['date']['start'] or some such in the form_result dictionary from FormEncode. If anyone could recommend an approach to take on this, or perhaps provide some sample code, it'd be great. Thanks, Domhnall. -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
