Yes. I had forgotten about the lambda option. :-)

On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 03:44:21 UTC-6, mcamel wrote:
>
> Looking at gluon/sqltml.py code i think i realized how 'linkto' works:
>
>    - is a lambda is passed, it's used to generate the href
>    - if not, a string is concatenated: href = '%s/%s/%s' % (linkto, 
>    tablename, r_old)
>
> The manual says nothing about expecting a lambda, so i figured out you 
> have to pass an URL and after that, 'tablename' and 'r_old' were appended 
> automatically to the args part. But it's not that way: if you do not pass a 
> lambda, you only can pass the name of a function (and then 'tablename' and 
> 'r_old' are appended at the end).
>
> Knowing that, this code seems to do the trick (replacing the empty string 
> with the name of the function to redirect):
>
> l = lambda field, type, ref: URL(f='', args=[ref, field], 
> vars=dict(data='data 
> in vars'))
>
> If you agree you can close 1881 ticket. It's not a bug at the code (maybe 
> at the manual).
>
> By the way, is it proper to open issues to suggest corrections of the 
> manual (i have a few)?.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> El martes, 25 de febrero de 2014 23:30:14 UTC+1, Massimo Di Pierro 
> escribió:
>>
>> Now I understand better. You cannot pass vars to linkto. That is by 
>> design because in principle, the linkto function may need parameters 
>> specified by the SQLFORM.
>>
>
>

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