Thats exactly what I am looking! Thanks, will try and post Thanks Anthony
On Thursday, September 5, 2013 6:31:46 PM UTC-7, Anthony wrote: > > Does conversiontype need to be writable in forms? If not, you can use a > computed field. If you are just trying to change the default value, you > could do something like: > > Field('conversiontype','reference conversiontype', > default=5 if request.vars.tiluse == 5 else 2) > > Note, that will only change the default on submission, so it won't help > with pre-populating the form (but you can't know the value of tileuse at > the time the form is created anyway). > > Anthony > > On Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:32:04 PM UTC-4, greenpoise wrote: >> >> is it possible to have an if statement of some sort in Dal to >> validate/add a value based on other field? >> >> like: >> >> db.define_table('product', >> Field('series', 'reference series'), >> Field('suppliercode','reference supplier'), >> Field('description'), >> Field('tiluse','reference tileuse'), >> Field('price'), >> Field('cost'), >> Field('picture', 'upload'), >> Field('conversiontype','reference conversiontype',default=2)) >> >> >> >> I need the conversiontype to be 1 if tiluse = '5' otherwise stay in 2. >> How can I accomplish this in Dal? >> >> thanks >> > -- --- 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 web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.