The "represent" attribute is used for read-only forms, SQLTABLE,
SQLFORM.grid, and when calling rows.render() -- it does not apply to update
forms (in that case, the field's widget controls what is displayed).
Anthony
On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 10:26:26 PM UTC-5, americandewd wrote:
>
> How would one go about troubleshooting "represent"?
>
> I am at the point where the ID matches the data I am looking for however
> it is not showing the title for the matching ID.
>
> Specifically I have categories held in this table:
> 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))
>
> I have a table where these categories will be used:
> db.define_table('animals',
> Field('name'),
> Field('breed'),
> Field('category', db.category),
> )
>
>
> I then exclude certain categories I don't want them to be able to post in:
> catwanted = []
> notwanted = ['Dogs','Cats','MiscPets']
> for row in db(db.category).select():
> if row.title in notwanted:
> pass
> else:
> catwanted.append(row.title)
> catwanted.sort()
>
>
>
> Then I have a form where I want to represent the title of the category.id
> it references so I use represent:
> db.animals.category.represent = lambda f: db.category[f].title
>
> Instead of showing me the title it shows me the id of that category when I
> go to edit the record using crud.update.
>
> I had this issue before however the only difference is that I did not
> exclude anything, and it was not a dropdown; specifically I used this same
> exact thing to show me the name of the Animal when updating the status of
> the pet.
>
> No matter what or where I do with represent it doesn't change the list
> from the the ID to the title.
>
> I even tried creating this all from scratch and it does exactly the same
> thing, shows the ID but, not the title of the category.
>
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