Jim,
Thanks. I had already tried that, and it doesn't work for me. I wrote a
little controller to test it:
@auth.requires_login()
def test_vars():
form = FORM(
FIELDSET('Subject: ', INPUT(_name='subject')),
FIELDSET('Other subject: ', INPUT(_name='otherSubject')),
FIELDSET('Recipients: ', INPUT(_name='recips', )),
FIELDSET('Message: ', TEXTAREA(_name='message')),
INPUT(_type='submit', _value='send', _name='sendBtn'),
INPUT(_type='submit', _value='cancel', _name='cancelBtn')
)
if form.accepts(request, keepvalues=True):
response.flash = 'oky'
elif form.errors:
response.flash = 'form has errors'
else:
form.vars.subject = 'my subject'
form.element(_name='otherSubject')['_value'] = 'other subject'
return dict(form=form)
I have no view, so I get the default. The form I see displayed has a blank
for the field 'subject', and the field 'otherSubject' is filled with 'other
subject'.
Now, that said, I could *easily* believe I'm screwing something else up. If
that example works on your system, then there's something else I'm doing
wrong. Thoughts?
On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 5:59:26 PM UTC-6, Jim S wrote:
>
> form.vars.fieldname = 'fieldvalue'
>
>
> -Jim
>
> On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 6:13:20 PM UTC-5, MichaelF wrote:
>>
>> I have a 'regular' form (i.e., FORM, not SQLFORM). I want to prepopulate
>> some of the fields, but I don't know the values to use for them when I
>> first create the form. What's the best practice for populating field
>> 'subject'? Is it using the 'element' function? For example:
>>
>> form = FORM(
>> FIELDSET('Subject: ', INPUT(_name='subject')),
>> FIELDSET('Recipients: ', INPUT(_name='recips', )),
>> FIELDSET('Message: ', TEXTAREA(_name='message')),
>> INPUT(_type='submit', _value='send', _name='sendBtn'),
>> INPUT(_type='submit', _value='cancel', _name='cancelBtn'))
>> if form.accepts(...):
>> ...
>> elif form.errors:
>> ...
>> else:
>> someCalculatedValue = some_database_call()
>> form.element(_name='subject')['_value'] = someCalculatedValue
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
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