Kiran, Thanks.
I came across same solution when I searched this forum a little more (I had already searched before posting, obviously not enough) https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/b1WmPZh6PlI/nMAX-u5Des0J -Mandar On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 10:49:23 PM UTC+5:30, Kiran Subbaraman wrote: > > globals().get(' hide_my_div',False) should return a False, if this is > not present. > > ________________________________________ > Kiran Subbaramanhttp://subbaraman.wordpress.com/about/ > > On Tue, 01-07-2014 10:06 PM, Mandar Vaze wrote: > > Hi, > > I have several views which are similar, so I am using common view file > using "response.view =common_view.html" rather than separate one per > controller. > > Out of these - 2 or 3 views are slightly different where certain parts of > the page (layout.html) need to be hidden. > > I tried : > > return dict(msg=msg, grid=grid, hide_my_div=True) > > in the view template I have : > > {{if hide_my_div:}} > <script> > $(document).ready(function(){ > $("#my_div").hide(); > }); > <script> > {{pass}} > > This works for the small number of views where I want to hide "my_div" > Unfortunately - this also means I need to pass "hide_my_div=False" from > large number of controllers. > > Is there a way to have hide_my_div=False *as a default* - so that I do > not need to return it explicitly - and I can override only when needed (2-3 > controllers) > Something like optional params with default values ? > > May be the way I am handling this is wrong. Is there a better way ? > > (I know that I can create separate view files for these "odd ones", but I > prefer not to, since these are going to be 90% similar to common_view.html > anyway) > > Thanks, > -Mandar > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- 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.
