Perhaps it would be a nice feature to add to the smartgrid - in place ajax update / addition. So you'd just add a smartgrid to your form, and you can click 'add' and right in place you can add a new record to the grid / db.
On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 11:43:31 AM UTC-7, Henrique Pantarotto wrote: > > Hi Christian, thanks for your reply! Your approach sounds interesting and > it seems to be one of the best options with what's possible as for this > moment. > > I have this page already implemented and working in php/javascript, but > I'm searching for a new "full featured framework" exactly to avoid these > kinds of ugly workarounds. I guess I'll either wait until web2py implements > this, or I guess I'll have to decide between rails or django for this > project. I'm not a python or ruby programmer (I program mostly in > C/Perl/shell and php), so it doesn't really matter much to me. > > I read all of web2py's documentation and created a few demo projects and I > enjoyed it very much. I wish I had the programming experience and knowledge > to help web2py developers to implement this feature, as it seems lots of > other people also need this (I've found MANY threads from people asking the > same thing on this mailing list). > > Thanks again! > > On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 2:17:05 AM UTC-2, howesc wrote: >> >> 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. >>> >>> --
