i have an (untested) idea...plugging together a few things i have used before....
- you could create templates of field sets using handlebars: http://handlebarsjs.com/ then you can via JS add them to the page based on user interaction. - you can use hidden fields to provide some meta data on the form. - remembering that in your controller you define your SQLFORM *before* you process it, you could check for the presence of your hidden fields in request.vars, and based on their values initialize your SQLFORM to match the sub-forms that were added to the form. then when you call .process it will check all those fields as well. i don't know if that is a great idea or not (we recently solved this problem at my workplace but i think ended up using handlebars and manual form processing)....it's a thought we considered and still might try! christian On Sunday, January 6, 2013 11:02:01 PM UTC-8, Henrique Pantarotto wrote: > > Hello everybody! > > I'm quite new to Python and web2py, but I "consumed" all of web2py's > wonderful documentation at the last few days and I'm quite amazed at this > wonderful framework. But there's a feature that I need that I couldn't find > a way to easily implement it. > > The application that I'm developing requires extensive use of form cloning > within a single web page, done dynamically at the client side. I'm not > really sure how to call this "technique", so I found a bit hard to find > information regarding this at this mailing list's archive. > > What I want to accomplish can be easily understood viewing the screenshots > from this tool: http://www.mdelrosso.com/sheepit/ > > I already have my own (ugly) jquery code to create the forms dynamically, > and of course I could validate it manually on web2py's side, but I was > looking into an easier implementation using something like FORM or SQLFORM. > Like I said, I'm very new to web2py and python, and I have no idea how > django works, but I think I need to accomplish something similar to this: > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/formsets/ > > I tried searching this mailing list archive and I found a couple of > discussions from people trying to do the same thing, but I didn't find a > solution. > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/web2py/ssaSj6v9Wu8/discussion > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/UK8NZ1VMlNk/discussion > > But these are threads from 2011.... > > There's also this guy asking something similar a couple of months ago: > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/IPMz4FylT2k/discussion and > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13215902/web2py-possible-to-submit-multiple-forms-with-a-single-submit-button/13215926#13215926but > the solution presented didn't seem very elegant. > > Anyway, I would really appreciate any help on this. > > > Thanks, Henrique. > > --
