Thanks, perfect, that was just what I was looking for!
Is that in the book or the docs somewhere?
On Thursday, October 16, 2014 8:29:37 PM UTC+2, Anthony wrote:
>
> You can pass the format as the third argument to the validator:
>
> IS_IN_DB(db(db.gang_users.gang == gang.id), db.gang_users.nickname, db.
> gang_users._format)
>
> Anthony
>
> On Thursday, October 16, 2014 2:02:02 PM UTC-4, Álvaro José Iradier wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I have a field in table 'expenses' defined as:
>> db.define_table('expenses',
>> Field('gang', db.gangs, required=True, notnull=True),
>> ...
>> Field('payer', db.gang_users, label=T('Payer')),
>> ...
>>
>> Table gang_users has a format like:
>>
>> db.define_table('gang_users',
>> Field('gang', db.gangs, required=True, notnull=True),
>> Field('auth_user', db.auth_user, required=True,
>> notnull=True),
>> Field('nickname', 'string', required=False,
>> notnull=False),
>> format = lambda r: "%s (%s)" % (r.auth_user.email,
>> r.nickname) if r.nickname else r.auth_user.email
>> )
>>
>> When the "payer" field is shown in a SQLFORM, it will display a dropdown
>> with the list of users from the table gang_users, formatted according to
>> the "auth.user.email (nickname)" rule defined in the format parameter of
>> gang_users table.
>>
>> However, I want to filter out this users, by doing in the controller:
>>
>> db.expenses.payer.requires = IS_IN_DB(db(db.gang_users.gang == gang.id),
>> db.gang_users.nickname)
>>
>> When the validator is set, only users from the given gang are displayed
>> in the dropdown, but I can display the nickname or id or any column from
>> the gang_users table. I would like to keep the "auth_users.email
>> (gang_users.nickname)" format as without the validator.
>>
>> Is it possible?
>>
>> Thanks very much.
>>
>> --
>> (:=================================:)
>> Alvaro J. Iradier Muro - [email protected] <javascript:>
>>
>
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