Your right. Thanks mate. I was getting confused over cid. But anyway it
works great for creating the form.
I notice that the form also submits via AJAX. How do I make it submit
normally so that I can have the page refreshed? I need the users list of
subscribed Charts and some other details to be updated after submitting the
form.
Thanks
Simon
On Wednesday, 7 November 2012 21:04:35 UTC, Niphlod wrote:
>
> doesn't it already (provided that there is a <div id='whatever'></div> in
> the page) ?
>
> On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 9:36:27 PM UTC+1, Simon Carr wrote:
>>
>> Thank you, but how do I implement this in my view so that it loads the
>> form into a div when the link is clicked?
>>
>> On Wednesday, 7 November 2012 20:00:52 UTC, Niphlod wrote:
>>>
>>> Wait a sec. callback and target are meant to load a fragment via ajax,
>>> but that doesn't "fire" all the logic needed to intercept FORMs etc.
>>> _callback and _target are meant roughly as an "onclick" under steroids.
>>> (under the hood it translates to an onclick="ajax(url, target)")
>>>
>>> What you're trying to achieve is probably offered by the LOAD helper,
>>> that can be exploited in an A() using _href and cid
>>>
>>> A('Add to My Charts',_href=URL('subscribe_form',vars={'chartname':
>>> 'whatever'}), cid='whatever')
>>>
>>> That will load the component and trap all links and form submissions,
>>> because it translates to an onclick="web2py_component(url, target)"
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 8:39:50 PM UTC+1, Simon Carr wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The URL with the form in is web2py_xlchart_dashboard/charts/user_charts
>>>> so without an action it will submit to *user_charts*, but I need it to
>>>> submit to* subscribe_form *which is the function that was called by
>>>> AJAX to generate the Form.
>>>>
>>>> or am I not understanding something?
>>>>
>>>> Simon
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, 7 November 2012 19:26:46 UTC, Derek wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Why would you need to create an action for the form? Are you not using
>>>>> self submit?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 12:22:03 PM UTC-7, Simon Carr wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have this piece of code that calls a function in my controller when
>>>>>> clicked.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> {{=A('Add to My Charts',callback=URL('subscribe_form',vars={
>>>>>> 'chartname':chart.chartName}),target=str(chart.chartName).replace('.'
>>>>>> ,'_'))}}
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The subscribe_form function looks like this
>>>>>>
>>>>>> def subscribe_form():
>>>>>>
>>>>>> form =
>>>>>> SQLFORM(db.user_chart,fields=['title','description'],hidden=dict(chartname=request.vars['chartname']))
>>>>>> if form.process().accepted:
>>>>>> response.flash = 'form accepted'
>>>>>> elif form.errors:
>>>>>> response.flash = 'form has errors'
>>>>>> else:
>>>>>> response.flash = 'please fill out the form'
>>>>>> return form
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The Form is created by AJAX, but it's action is blank.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do I have to specify the action myself if I am build a Form via AJAX?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Simon
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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