You might consider the auto-complete widget.
Anthony
On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 2:55:38 PM UTC-5, Pierre wrote:
>
> problem is I want to input the reference field as its string
> representation nor as an integer
>
> with this :
>
> db.define_table('trux',
> Field('tuser', 'reference auth_user'))
>
> db.trux.tuser.requires=IS_IN_DB(db, 'auth_user.id','%(username)s')
>
> I get a string from a dropdown
>
> howewer with the same requires in a list :
>
> db.trux.tuser.requires=[IS_IN_DB(db, 'auth_user.id','%(username)s')]
>
> and obviously with the integer widget:
>
> I cannot input a string because it brings up an error or is impossible
>
> finally I did it with an onvalidation function but it checks
> strings(usernames) instead of number(ids) so not good
>
>
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