Does anyone know what would cause "represent" to be ignored?
On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 8:33:15 PM UTC-6, americandewd wrote: > > I have tried adding directly to the model: > > represent = lambda f: db.category[f].title > > this did not work either, (also ignored) > > Any one have any ideas? OR how I can troubleshoot this? > > On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 8:08:45 PM UTC-6, americandewd wrote: >> >> I noticed that in the places where I used represent it wasn't a dropdown >> selection plus I also made the field non-writable. I cannot follow these >> conditions because it needs to be a list the user can select. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 7:57:22 PM UTC-6, americandewd wrote: >>> >>> Ok I noticed partly where my error is: >>> *row.title needs to be row.id <http://row.id>* >>> >>> I have used "represent" before and attempted it again here. However it >>> is being completely ignored. Specifically what I tried is not working and >>> I have used this many times before without problem. The only difference >>> using it before was that the field was changed to be unwritable. >>> >>> Currently I tried to get represent to work in the same way I have used >>> before: >>> formcontrol.category.represent = lambda f: db.category[f].title >>> >>> This is being completely ignored. >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >>> On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 5:22:59 PM UTC-6, americandewd wrote: >>>> >>>> I have a dropdown list of categories I have created for users to select >>>> from, when I remove formcontrol.category.requires = >>>> IS_IN_SET(catwanted,zero=None) it shows the existing data the user has >>>> already chosen, when I put back the formcontrol.category.requires = >>>> IS_IN_SET(catwanted,zero=None) it does not show the data existing in the >>>> field. The existing data was chosen from initial creation of the data in >>>> the same manner however if the user wants to go back and change this it is >>>> not showing what they had existing, instead the dropdown select has the >>>> first sorted item of the list as though they never had any data there (yet >>>> this record exists). >>>> >>>> I tried several things mentioned here and in the book, none of them >>>> showed the existing data. The only thing that would show it is if I took >>>> out the "IS_IN_SET" with my list created from the actual category list in >>>> the DB. >>>> >>>> In my model I am creating a category list (Massimo helped with this >>>> awhile back): >>>> >>>> db.define_table('category', >>>> Field('title'), >>>> Field('slug',requires=IS_SLUG(),compute=lambda row: IS_SLUG.urlify( >>>> row.title)), >>>> Field('parent_id','reference category', default=None)) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> In that list I have main categories that I do not want before I make a >>>> call to edit the form like so: >>>> catwanted = [] >>>> notwanted = ['Dontwant1','Dontwant2','Dontwant3'] >>>> for row in db(db.category).select(): >>>> if row.title in notwanted: >>>> pass >>>> else: >>>> catwanted.append(row.title) >>>> catwanted.sort() >>>> >>>> When I call the form I put that list as a requirement: >>>> formcontrol.category.requires = IS_IN_SET(catwanted,zero=None) >>>> >>>> The list shows up fine, the problem is that it does not show the >>>> existing data for that field, it shows the first sorted item. >>>> >>>> When I remove the >>>> formcontrol.category.requires = IS_IN_SET(catwanted,zero=None) >>>> from the call it shows me the existing data in the field, however at >>>> this point I am not obviously removing the categories from the available >>>> options. >>>> >>>> Since the only way I can get it to show the existing value is by >>>> removing "formcontrol.category.requires = IS_IN_SET(catwanted,zero=None)" >>>> I >>>> am posting here to see if maybe this is just a weird bug because the data >>>> that exists in the field is not in the excluded list and I have other >>>> parts >>>> in which I do this except the only difference is that I do not exclude >>>> anything and it shows the existing value in the field. This does not seem >>>> right to me for it to not want to show existing data that matches the data >>>> in the wanted list of items. >>>> >>> -- 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.
