Opened issue 1423
https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=1423&thanks=1423&ts=1364829473
On Monday, April 1, 2013 10:11:59 AM UTC-4, Cliff Kachinske wrote:
>
> I have prototyped a change to the way smartgrid processes linked_tables.
> I would like a similar change in the distributed code.
>
> In current stable version, if linked_tables is a dictionary, smartgrid
> uses the keys but throws the values away. I propose the following:
>
> If linked_tables is not a dictionary, do as before.
>
> If linked_tables is a dictionary, the values can be one field name or a
> list of field names.
>
> If one field name, append to links same as table/field entries now work.
>
> If a list, iterate over the list and append each.
>
> If empty list, ignores the entry.
>
>
> I have a working prototype with a little work to be done so it raises an
> exception if a field name is incorrect.
>
> I will open a ticket and attach a diff once I have the error handling
> working. The code will be verbose and repetitive; I will keep working on
> that, but I want to get the concept in front of you.
>
> Thanks,
> Cliff Kachinske
>
> On Sunday, March 31, 2013 7:35:26 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>
>> Please add a ticket about this. I am not sure it is a bug but if it is
>> track I will check it asap.
>>
>> On Friday, 29 March 2013 14:59:58 UTC-5, Cliff Kachinske wrote:
>>>
>>> Massimo,
>>>
>>> I tried setting them that way in the controller but it didn't help.
>>>
>>> On Friday, March 29, 2013 12:12:30 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Have you tried making the fields that you do not want readable=False?
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, 29 March 2013 09:17:50 UTC-5, Cliff Kachinske wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> There is a table something like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> db.define_table('example',
>>>>> ...
>>>>> field('user_id', 'reference auth_user', requires=IS_IN_DB(.....)),
>>>>> field('created_by', 'reference auth_user',
>>>>> requires=IS_IN_DB(.....)),
>>>>> field('modified_by', 'reference auth_user',
>>>>> requires=IS_IN_DB(.....)),
>>>>> ...
>>>>> )
>>>>>
>>>>> Then I do something like
>>>>>
>>>>> form = SQLFORM.smartgrid(db.auth_user, linked_tables=['example' ...],
>>>>> fields=[db.example.user_id, ...] ...)
>>>>>
>>>>> smartgrid gives me three links to the example table: example.user_id,
>>>>> example.created_by, example.modified_by
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> How can I suppress the example.created_by and example.modified_by
>>>>> links? I thought the entry in fields would do it, but it does not.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for any help on this.
>>>>>
>>>>
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