In models you can do: db.mytable.myemail.represent = lambda email,row: A(email,_href='mailto:%s' % email)
On Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:22:17 UTC-6, Paul wrote: > > > I am a web2py newbie though I've used Python for years. I need a CRMy kind > of application so I latched onto this > https://github.com/mdipierro/web2py-appliances/tree/master/CustomerRelationshipManagement > > and am trying to tweak it for my specific needs. It would probably be > better to cut my teeth on something simpler, but oh well, there you have it. > > My newbie question: I added an email field to the person table. Every time > I view this datum I want this field, without exception, to be displayed as > a mailto anchor tag. Where in the MVC paradigm is the best place to define > this parameter? > > To elaborate a bit in the following view it's the crud.read that > automatically handles all the data iterations and display, yes? As a > workaround I know I could go with something like a for or while block and > walk through the data. I'd rather that the crud.read knows that it needs to > display the email field as a mailto anchor tag. That way my views will stay > synced with future data model changes which is one of the benefits of > web2py. > > {{extend 'layout.html'}} > <h1>{{=person.name}}</h1> > <h2>{{=person.role}} at {{=link_company(person.company)}}</a></h2> > > {{=button('edit','edit_person',person.id)}} > {{=button('logs','list_logs',person.id)}} > {{=button('docs','list_docs',person.id)}} > {{=button('tasks','list_tasks',person.id)}} > > {{=crud.read(db.person,person)}} > > {{=tag('person',person.id)}} > > -- 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.
