No, they're not submitted if I re-submit the form with the preserved values.
Ian On Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 1:25:01 PM UTC-4, Richard wrote: > > Is the form widget only display the last input but insert the other > values? I mean, it may be possible that values are there but not correctly > display by the widget... > > Richard > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Ian W. Scott <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Sorry if I'm not explaining this well. The default widget for a >> list:string field is a vertically stacked list of inputs, one per value. >> There is a little + at right that allows me to add more inputs to the list >> dynamically. >> >> In a SQLFORM, when I set keepvalues=True the values are preserved in the >> form fields after form submission. But only one of the inputs from the >> list:string widget is left, holding just the last string value submitted >> for that field. In other words, the form doesn't remember the additional >> inputs I added to the widget (by clicking +) before submission, and it >> forgets the submitted values from those additional inputs as well. >> >> I've experienced this on many forms, so I don't think it's my code. In >> the case that brought this up for me again, I'm creating a SQLFORM.factory >> with the fields defined in the controller. (You can see that I've got some >> for loops to simplify the creation and processing of a large number of >> fields, but otherwise it's straightforward.) The problem appears with the >> widgets for any of the list:string fields: >> >> >> message = '' >> output = '' >> >> flds = [Field('label_template', 'string'), >> Field('words', 'list:string'), >> Field('aligned', 'boolean'), >> Field('avoid', 'list:string'), >> Field('testing', 'boolean')] >> >> >> for n in ['one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five']: >> fbs = [Field('{}_prompt_template'.format(n), 'list:string'), >> Field('{}_response_template'.format(n), 'list:string' >> ), >> Field('{}_readable_template'.format(n), 'list:string' >> ), >> Field('{}_tags'.format(n), 'list:reference tags', >> requires=IS_IN_DB(db, 'tags.id', '%(tag)s', >> multiple=True)), >> Field('{}_tags_secondary'.format(n), 'list:reference >> tags', >> requires=IS_IN_DB(db, 'tags.id', '%(tag)s', >> multiple=True)), >> Field('{}_tags_ahead'.format(n), 'list:reference tags' >> , >> requires=IS_IN_DB(db, 'tags.id', '%(tag)s', >> multiple=True)), >> Field('{}_npcs'.format(n), 'list:reference npcs', >> requires=IS_IN_DB(db, 'npcs.id', '%(name)s', >> multiple=True)), >> Field('{}_locations'.format(n), 'list:reference >> locations', >> requires=IS_IN_DB(db, 'locations.id', >> '%(map_location)s', >> multiple=True)), >> Field('{}_instructions'.format(n), >> 'list:reference step_instructions', >> requires=IS_IN_DB(db, 'step_instructions.id', >> '%(instruction_label)s', >> multiple=True)), >> Field('{}_hints'.format(n), 'list:reference >> step_hints', >> requires=IS_IN_DB(db, 'step_hints.id', >> '%(hint_label)s', >> multiple=True)), >> Field('{}_step_type'.format(n), 'list:reference >> step_types', >> requires=IS_IN_DB(db, 'step_types.id', >> '%(step_type)s', >> multiple=True)), >> Field('{}_image_template'.format(n), 'string')] >> flds.extend(fbs) >> form = SQLFORM.factory(*flds) >> >> >> if form.process(keepvalues=True).accepted: >> vv = request.vars >> stepsdata = [] >> for n in ['one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five']: >> nkeys = [k for k in vv.keys() if re.match('{}.*'.format(n >> ), k)] >> filledfields = [k for k in nkeys if vv[k] not in ['', >> None]] >> if filledfields: >> ndict = {k: vv[k] for k in nkeys} >> stepsdata.append(ndict) >> if isinstance(vv['words'], list): >> wordlists = [w.split('|') for w in vv['words']] >> else: >> wordlists = [vv['words'].split('|')] >> paths = self.make_path(wordlists, >> label_template=vv.label_template, >> stepsdata=stepsdata, >> testing=vv.testing, >> avoid=vv.avoid, >> aligned=vv.aligned >> ) >> message, output = self.make_output(paths) >> >> >> elif form.errors: >> message = BEAUTIFY(form.errors) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 11:04:46 AM UTC-4, Richard wrote: >>> >>> Could you show your model and controller... >>> >>> This make no sens... >>> >>> Richard >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Ian W. Scott <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I never got any suggestions on this, even though it seems like a >>>> significant limitation of the widget. Has anyone come up with a solution >>>> for keeping all the values in a list:string field after form submission? >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 11:33:26 AM UTC-4, Ian W. Scott wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I've got a SQLFORM.factory form set to keep values after processing >>>>> with process(keepvalues=True). But it doesn't work on a list:string >>>>> field. >>>>> The (otherwise very nice) widget loses all but the first value when the >>>>> form is submitted (i.e., all but the first text inputs for the field >>>>> disappear). 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