I am trying to break up a large form into steps that have complex interdependent values for a benefit application. I can achieve everything with controller/client side logic but I was hoping to do it at the widget level so that the form is portable (i.e. works in appadmin too). It would be a breaking change so I'll drop the issue. Thanks for the feedback though.
On Monday, October 28, 2013 6:46:51 AM UTC-5, Anthony wrote: > > On Sunday, October 27, 2013 8:40:18 PM UTC-4, mr.freeze wrote: > >> I wouldn't say the use case is odd but it's definitely complex. Then >> again, without a context for custom widgets to operate in (i.e. no >> knowledge of the record or form that they are bound to) only simple use >> cases are possible. Represent and widget are output/input analogs but for >> some reason represent has access to the whole row whereas widget only gets >> the field value. I will propose a patch if it can be done unobtrusively >> and without coupling Field to SQLFORM any further. >> > > If a field requires special formatting depending on the values of other > fields in the form, presumably that special formatting should apply in > create forms as well as in edit forms when the values of the other fields > are changed. Those cases require client-side logic. So, perhaps the > rationale for not passing the record to the widget is that having the > widget attempt to handle inter-field formatting dependencies would be > inadequate and should therefore be handled entirely via JS (rather than > having server-side logic handle the initial loading of edit records, with > redundant JS logic to handle create forms and dynamic changes in edit > forms). > > Out of curiosity, what is your use case? > > Anthony > -- 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 web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
