I do this
form.process(keepvalues=True,onvalidation=validate_meas).accepted:
and the form retains values on submission.
On Saturday, January 11, 2014 at 12:10:07 AM UTC+5:30, Kiran Subbaraman
wrote:
>
> Hello All,
> The *design *is: I have a custom form with the a controller that
> inserts/updates a table. Tthe form accepts data, and on successful
> submission of this form, it stays on the same page (there are no redirects
> to another page or form)
> *Issue*: The problem am seeing is, when I update values in the form, and
> submit it, the entered values are lost when the form returns because of
> successful submit, or due to errors. I have tried to use keepvalues=True in
> the form.accepts() and form.process() methods. No luck.
> Details below.
>
> Since the page am building has specific design needs, I went with the
> option of a custom form, where I used the form.custom.* options quite a
> bit. Therefore input fields in the form look like this
> <input type="text" class="form-control
> {{if form.errors.country:}}invalidinput{{pass}}"
> id="country" name="country"
> value="{{=form.custom.inpval['country']}}"
> placeholder="{{=form.custom.comment['country']}}"
>
> Also the controller is coded as below
> x = db(db.x.x_id == auth.user.id).select().first()
> if x:
> form = SQLFORM(db.x, record=x)
> else:
> form = SQLFORM(db.x)
> pass
>
>
> # process the form
> if form.accepts(request.vars, formname='basicinfo_form', keepvalues=
> True):
> response.flash = 'Basic Information updated successfully.'
> elif form.errors:
> response.flash = 'The submitted form contains errors. The fields
> in error are highlighted below.'
> else:
> response.flash = 'Please fill the form.'
> pass
>
> return dict(form=form)
>
> I was thinking that maybe I should capture the request.vars and send it
> back to the view alongwith the form.
> If the request.vars.country value exists, then I use that, instead of the
> form.custom.inpval['country']. This only makes the view code a bit more
> verbose, but if it solves the problem, then nothing like it.
>
> Can anyone suggest what I could do to sort this out?
> Thank you,
> Kiran
>
> P.S: I did take a look at all the conversations in the forum about
> keepvalues. None of them seemed to help me. Though I did find this one to
> be interesting and am curious if this is sorted out already:
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/web2py/keepvalues$20on$20validate/web2py/MNEYo96Shzg/jjKZaMmfAgQJ
>
>
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