hi Kiran, would you posting an extract of your final solution?
cheers Steve On Thursday, 16 January 2014 02:32:31 UTC+8, Kiran Subbaraman wrote: > > Anthony, > Thanks for the explanation. Went ahead and created widgets, and things > work just fine. > > ________________________________________ > Kiran Subbaramanhttp://subbaraman.wordpress.com/about/ > > On Wed, 15-01-2014 2:28 PM, Anthony wrote: > > On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 3:47:28 AM UTC-5, Kiran Subbaraman wrote: >> >> Hmm, I was planning to use keepvalues for the following scenarios: >> >> - Scenario1 - submitted form returns with errors, and still displays >> the form with the submitted values >> - Scenario2 - submit form successfully, and still display the form >> with the submitted values >> >> You mention that the keepvalues should work fine for Scenario2. >> > No, I was just saying that keepvalues is only intended for Scenario2 -- it > is irrelevant for Scenario1 (in that cases, the values are retained > regardless of keepvalues). Neither scenario works for you because you are > not using form.custom.widget. > > >> Can you please elaborate how I can do this "so your custom widget should >> be able to retain the value if desired (without using request.vars)". >> > Look at the documentation on custom widgets. Your widget function will > receive a field object and a value. Just take the value and use it as the > "value" attribute of your input element in the widget code. > > Anthony > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- 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.
