thanks Dave. I don't know if I want it to be helper or regular function....whatever works. Those seem to be args, not vars; do functions accept dictionaries inside those parens?
anyway, if reusable_find_person_and_return_their_value is called from within another function, the grid never shows up or doesn't display buttons to select person. It just flies through the code and returns to parent. If I call reusable_find_person_and_return_their_value explicitly from browser or view, then grid shows up and shows me buttons to make selection. How do I make it display the grid? -- 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.

