Anthony,
I forgot that the “represent” clause could be in the controller. Yes, it works fine, thanks! I was wondering if you could help me with a problem that I’ve been submitting for months without getting any reply posts. I’m looking for a best practice example of a way to capture the id of an already-existing record that is the result of a search, and create a child record for it. I hope that it would be worth it to provide a demo, as it would generally benefit all new developers. One idea I had was to use Smartgrid to locate an already-existing record, then pass Smartgrid vars from the selected record to Factory to add children to that one selected record. The generic “add child” feature of Smartgrid is a little too open-ended for users, in that they are not guided very specifically. I may be wrong about that, and a nice thing about Smartgrid is that user can add infinite multiple children to the parent. Not sure if the Smartgrid-to-Factory concept makes any sense. It could be that I don’t know how to customize Smartgrid, for example, when I click on the child link, and want to add another child, I get a dropdown of all potential parents to choose from, instead of the parent that I came from. If a good way of searching for parent and adding children to selection could be demonstrated that helps new programmers, I would be willing to post it on Slices. Example: Many people own many dogs. User wants to find an already-existing person (parent record) and add a dog (child record) to the owner’s dog list. I would like a demo of searching for people that already exist, and adding a child record (dog) to a selected person. If you could find the time for this, it would help me fly through a many parts of my project! Thanks, Alex On Monday, June 10, 2013 8:37:16 PM UTC-7, Anthony wrote: > > On Monday, June 10, 2013 12:18:51 PM UTC-4, Alex Glaros wrote: > >> The 2nd example, function, gets an error: >> >> >> - In the controller the function error is: <type >> 'exceptions.NameError'> name 'rtid_represent' is not defined >> - If I put the function in the model, error is: <type >> 'exceptions.SyntaxError'> 'return' outside function (db.py, line 1013) >> >> I assume you've got some copy/paste errors. As you can see, the > rtid_represent function is defined right before it is assigned as the value > of the represent attribute, so it cannot be "not defined" at that point. > Likewise, the "return" statement is clearly inside the function. Check for > rogue spaces/tabs, etc., and make sure the code is properly in order. > > Anthony > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
