I'm going a little nuts with forms that have readonly fields. Examples are forms where some fields are shown to the user so they can see the contents, but they aren't allowed to change them. For example, an "expiration date" for a subscription. They can see when it expires, but they can't just edit it. They have to go thru an ordering process for that.
The Field flag of writable=False has not proved useful. It changes the field to a simple piece of text and thus breaks any custom formstyle I'm using. The simple text without an input field looks ugly and doesn't match spacing, fonts, or any of the other myriad styles used in the read/write fields. Sad to say, writable=False just is not useful. I have created an alternative that creates the fields as usual, but marks them with a "readonly" attribute. Javascript can then be used to ensure the contents are not modified, even for tricky fields like date selectors and list box widgets. But now we get to the underlying problem -- the form validator fails when I take this approach. Because the readonly fields are readonly, they do not show up in the request.vars when the form is submitted. But since the SQLFORM knows nothing of this, it just sees null values for the fields and throws a validation error for elements like list boxes (which can't be empty). It's almost like I want to change the SQLFORM definition after the form is created (with the readonly list boxes) and then remove those fields from the SQLFORM when it does its validate processing, so it would just ignore the missing fields and not try to update the record with empty values. Here's an example. You can see the cursor which tells the user the field is not editable. On this view the expire date, the season, the age, and the US Swim ID are all non-editable fields. But the season is an example of an option list which causes the form processing to throw an error and fail. Just looking for some ideas. Joe <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BqVuGZtmcZw/WN4frOAVqLI/AAAAAAAAAoc/Hd37dU2uKB89UIRmwZTI5bfx9q2wqDN-QCLcB/s1600/Form_with_readonly.png> -- 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.
