Ive seen some of the other stuff for generating forms but I want to do
it myself. The info thing is exactly what I am looking for thanks.

Dan

On Feb 1, 1:53 am, [email protected] wrote:
> there has been a number of apps announced that do html forms from SA
> schema - look up the list.
> afaik Column() takes an 'info=...' dict with whatever stuff u put in
> it. Same goes for Table()
>
>
>
> > I have been trying to figure out a way to easily create HTML forms
> > and some other stuff from my schema without repeating myself all
> > over. I have looked through the doc and to an extent the list but
> > havent found anything.
>
> > Ideally I would be able to do something like
> > Column("whatever", String(128), metadata= { 'visible':True} )
>
> > then in my form generating code do something like
>
> > if obj.c.whatever.metadata['visible']:
> >      print obj.whatever
>
> > Basically, what I am looking for is the ability to associate extra
> > attributes to these columns in my code without having to redefine
> > them. It would be awesome to do something like
>
> > ${formfor(obj)}
>
> > in my templates instead of hardcoding it then worrying about the
> > form changing or a column growing later. I apologize if this sounds
> > stupid or like a bad idea.
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