Actually that will keep on working. Good choice.
On Saturday, November 8, 2014 9:05:05 PM UTC-5, Jeremiah Peterson wrote: > > I changed it to db.news.link.show_if = (db.news.category=='1') adding the > ' ' around the numbers and it seems to be working. I'm assuming once that's > fixed, what I have will quit working? > > On Saturday, November 8, 2014 7:43:23 PM UTC-6, DenesL wrote: >> >> Note that there is an issue with show_if >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/web2py/dnbPyALwZKE >> >> >> On Friday, November 7, 2014 5:37:27 PM UTC-5, Jeremiah Peterson wrote: >>> >>> Thank you very much, I really appreciate it. That worked perfectly! >>> >>> On Friday, November 7, 2014 4:11:09 PM UTC-6, DenesL wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Jeremiah, >>>> >>>> the show_if hides the whole row as it applies a display:none to it. >>>> In the custom forms we can only access individual components, not the >>>> whole row (AFAIK). >>>> >>>> But, you can get it work by including an element with the same id as >>>> the row that is being hidden, e.g. >>>> >>>> <div id="news_link__row">Link: {{=form.custom.widget.link}}<br></div> >>>> >>>> Denes. >>>> >>>> On Thursday, November 6, 2014 8:56:10 PM UTC-5, Jeremiah Peterson wrote: >>>>> >>>>> My controller is this. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> def news_create(): >>>>> db.news.link.show_if = (db.news.category==1) >>>>> db.news.votes.default = 0 >>>>> form = SQLFORM(db.news) >>>>> return locals() >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> And the view is this.... thanks so much for looking. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> {{extend 'layout.html'}} >>>>> >>>>> <h2>New Item</h2> >>>>> {{=form.custom.begin}} >>>>> Type: {{=form.custom.widget.category}}<br><br> >>>>> Title: {{=form.custom.widget.title}}<br><br> >>>>> Link: {{=form.custom.widget.link}}<br><br></div> >>>>> Comment: {{=form.custom.widget.comment}}<br><br></div> >>>>> {{=form.custom.submit}} >>>>> {{=form.custom.end}} >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The html comes out like this. >>>>> >>>>> <foraction="#"enctype="multipart/formdatamethod="post">Type: <select >>>>> class="generic-widget" id="news_category" name="category"><option >>>>> value=</option><option value="2">ask</option><option value="1">share >>>>> </option></select><br><br>Title: <input class="string" id="news_title" >>>>> name="title" type="text" value="" /><br><br>Link: <input class="string" >>>>> id="news_link" name="link" type="text" value="" /><br><br></div>Comment: >>>>> <textarea class="text" cols="40" id="news_comment" name="comment" rows >>>>> ="10"></textarea><br><br></div><input type="submit" value="Submit" /> >>>>> </form> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I tried to wrap the Title line and Link line with some divs with ID's >>>>> and then tried to show/hide them using javascript depending on what the >>>>> drop down value was for category field. For some reason I wasn't able to >>>>> make that work either. I could get it working in jsfiddle, but then when >>>>> I >>>>> put that js in my view it wouldn't work. I've never done any js coding >>>>> before though so wasn't real confident on what I was doing. >>>>> >>>>> Basically what I'm trying to do is if the person chooses ask, they >>>>> should see the comment input, and then if these choose share, they see >>>>> the >>>>> link input field. >>>>> >>>>> Jeremiah >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday, November 6, 2014 7:35:57 PM UTC-6, Massimo Di Pierro >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Can you show us your form? Do you use {{=form.custom.widget[field]}} >>>>>> or <input..../>. The latter is not supposed to work >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thursday, 6 November 2014 09:45:10 UTC-6, Jeremiah Peterson wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> in my controller I have >>>>>>> >>>>>>> db.news.link.show_if = (db.news.category==1) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In my view if I just use {{=form}} then it will only show the 'link' >>>>>>> field if the category field is set to 1. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> However if I use {{=form.custom.begin}} so can I can place my form >>>>>>> fields in the order I want, it doesn't make that link field conditional >>>>>>> any >>>>>>> longer. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is there a way to fix this, or is there a way to use {[=form}} and >>>>>>> have my fields show up in the order I want them too? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>> Jeremiah >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- 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.
