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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>

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