I do not believe the lack of dropdown has anything to do with the migration. Something is changing the validator.
On Tuesday, 17 September 2013 13:39:51 UTC-5, Avi A wrote: > > The first issue, yes I don't get a dropdown list. I only changed the field > type and the migration line. I used the wizard to create a new app and > there are quite many fixes I have to make, mostly changing the type to > reference and replacing strings with uploads. > thanks. > > On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 4:13:46 PM UTC+3, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >> >> There are two different issues. One is the question in your first email >> about migration. Is the problem that you do not get a dropdown? Is it >> possible you manually set a validator for the field? >> >> Your second question. How to drop a table. >> 1) enable migrations >> 2) python web2py.py -S yourapp -M -M >> 3) type >> >> db.yourtable.drop() >> db.commit() >> >> 4) edit the model and remove the table before using the app, else it will >> be created again. >> >> On Tuesday, 17 September 2013 07:46:42 UTC-5, Avi A wrote: >>> >>> Changing it to True, didn't make a change either. >>> >>> On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 3:34:29 PM UTC+3, Avi A wrote: >>>> >>>> What's the procedure to drop the table? >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 3:22:35 PM UTC+3, Niphlod wrote: >>>>> >>>>> if you set migrate=False, what kind of migration you expect ? >>>>> >>>>> PS: changing something from integer to string suualy doesn't involve >>>>> any problem: doing the opposite brings many.... my totally personal >>>>> advice >>>>> is drop those table and recreate them from scratch >>>>> >>>>> On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 1:33:54 PM UTC+2, Avi A wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> I changed in some table (t_items) a field type from: >>>>>> type='string' >>>>>> to: >>>>>> type='reference t_categories' >>>>>> and replaced: >>>>>> migrate=settings.migrate >>>>>> with: >>>>>> migrate=False,fake_migrate=True >>>>>> I stopped and started the server, but I don't see that the change >>>>>> took place, on the relevant form. (create item.). >>>>>> What should I do? >>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>> >>>>> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- 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.

