Have you tried replacing
value="{{=form.custom.inpval['country']}}"
with
value="{{=form.custom.dspval['country']}}"
On Sunday, 12 January 2014 22:50:43 UTC-6, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Really would like some help with this. Anyone have suggestions?
> Thank you,
> Kiran
>
> On Saturday, January 11, 2014 12:10:07 AM UTC+5:30,
> [email protected]:
>>
>> Hello All,
>> The *design *is: I have a custom form with the a controller that
>> inserts/updates a table. Tthe form accepts data, and on successful
>> submission of this form, it stays on the same page (there are no redirects
>> to another page or form)
>> *Issue*: The problem am seeing is, when I update values in the form, and
>> submit it, the entered values are lost when the form returns because of
>> successful submit, or due to errors. I have tried to use keepvalues=True in
>> the form.accepts() and form.process() methods. No luck.
>> Details below.
>>
>> Since the page am building has specific design needs, I went with the
>> option of a custom form, where I used the form.custom.* options quite a
>> bit. Therefore input fields in the form look like this
>> <input type="text" class="form-control
>> {{if form.errors.country:}}invalidinput{{pass}}"
>> id="country" name="country"
>> value="{{=form.custom.inpval['country']}}"
>> placeholder="{{=form.custom.comment['country']}}"
>>
>> Also the controller is coded as below
>> x = db(db.x.x_id == auth.user.id).select().first()
>> if x:
>> form = SQLFORM(db.x, record=x)
>> else:
>> form = SQLFORM(db.x)
>> pass
>>
>>
>> # process the form
>> if form.accepts(request.vars, formname='basicinfo_form', keepvalues=
>> True):
>> response.flash = 'Basic Information updated successfully.'
>> elif form.errors:
>> response.flash = 'The submitted form contains errors. The fields
>> in error are highlighted below.'
>> else:
>> response.flash = 'Please fill the form.'
>> pass
>>
>> return dict(form=form)
>>
>> I was thinking that maybe I should capture the request.vars and send it
>> back to the view alongwith the form.
>> If the request.vars.country value exists, then I use that, instead of the
>> form.custom.inpval['country']. This only makes the view code a bit more
>> verbose, but if it solves the problem, then nothing like it.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest what I could do to sort this out?
>> Thank you,
>> Kiran
>>
>> P.S: I did take a look at all the conversations in the forum about
>> keepvalues. None of them seemed to help me. Though I did find this one to
>> be interesting and am curious if this is sorted out already:
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/web2py/keepvalues$20on$20validate/web2py/MNEYo96Shzg/jjKZaMmfAgQJ
>>
>>
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