Yes, the easiest way is generally to set the default value of the field prior to creating the form.
On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 7:26:19 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I am trying to make a form that mainly gets its data from a single table, > there are however > > some fields that cannot be handled by SQLFORM. For instance I have in my > table a PostGIS > > geography field holding the position of a point that I would like to > update using text fields for latitude > > and longitude. After some reading and googling I figured a possible > solution would be to use the > > SQLFORM.factory with a mix of fields coming from the model defined > database table and 'dummy' fields to > > be handled directly by the controller during the updates. I was wondering > if there is a way to populate the fields > > coming directly from the table in an automated way such as the one SQLFORM > would provide, and also how to > > preload the remaining fields according to my logic (should I use the > dafault value property dinamically assigning the > > required value?). Any suggestion is much appreciated. > > > > -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
