Yes. Replace
<form action="#" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
<ul>
<li>Your name is <input name="name" /></li>
<li>Your group is <input name="grp_name" /></li>
<li>Your request date is <input name="req_date" /></li>
<li>Your email is <input name="email" /></li>
</ul>
<input type="submit" />
<input type="hidden" name="_formname" value="test" />
</form>
with
{{=form.custom.begin}}
<ul>
<li>Your name is {{=form.custom.widget.name}}</li>
...
{{=form.custom.end}}
On Friday, 13 December 2013 05:03:34 UTC-6, curly wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I'm new to web2py and have just started running web2py 2.8.1 in ubuntu
> 12.04.
>
> I am trying to customize the style of SQLFORM in web2py views. Tried to do
> this using SQLFORM in HTML. What I have is:-
>
> model:
> db.define_table(
> "register",
> Field('pi_id',db.pi),
> Field('name',requires=[IS_NOT_EMPTY(), IS_ALPHANUMERIC()]),
> Field('grp_name'),
> Field('req_date','date', requires = IS_DATE(format=('%d-%m-%Y'))),
> Field('email',requires=[IS_EMAIL()]))
> db.register.grp_name.widget = SQLFORM.widgets.autocomplete(
> request, db.pi.name, limitby=(0,10), min_length=1)
>
> controller:
> def display_your_form():
> form =
> SQLFORM(db.register,fields=['name','grp_name','req_date','email'])
> if form.process(session=None,formname="test").accepted:
> response.flash = 'Reg saved.'
> redirect(URL('samples', 'default', 'index'))
> elif form.errors:
> response.flash = 'form has errors'
> return dict()
>
> view:
> {{extend 'layout.html'}}
> <form action="#" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
> <ul>
> <li>Your name is <input name="name" /></li>
> <li>Your group is <input name="grp_name" /></li>
> <li>Your request date is <input name="req_date" /></li>
> <li>Your email is <input name="email" /></li>
> </ul>
> <input type="submit" />
> <input type="hidden" name="_formname" value="test" />
> </form>
>
>
> Unfortunately, I now no longer get error messages for fields that are left
> empty, a date app to help insert a date, and the autocomplete doesn't work
> (all of these worked fine with the default view of SQLFORM). Am I missing
> something obvious?
>
> Would custom forms be a better way of doing this?
>
> Many thanks.
>
>
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