Life saver! :) Use this code and it works like a charm. requires=IS_EMPTY_OR(IS_IN_DB(db, 'category.id','%(name)s'))
On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 4:32:24 PM UTC+2, Anthony wrote: > > Please read the documentation: > http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07/forms-and-validators#Database-validators > > The third argument lets you specify how you want the items represented via > Python string formatting (or alternatively using a function). > > Anthony > > On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 10:14:23 AM UTC-4, Vic Ding wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I have the following table definition; >> >> db.define_table('category', >> auth.signature, >> Field('name','string'), >> Field('parent', 'reference category', >> requires=IS_EMPTY_OR(IS_IN_DB(db, 'category.id'))), >> format='%(name)s' >> ) >> >> >> In the database management and SQLFORM I get the cat id in the drop down >> instead of the name. I would like to see the name instead of the plain ID. >> Any idea how? >> >> Thanks! >> > -- 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.
