It is not that it does not work. it just treats a link table as a normal table, instead it should hide it and only use it to build the queries. it is not a hard change to make but we never got to make it because we always plant to reimplement the grid in a more modular manner
On Monday, 3 September 2018 06:53:01 UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi, > > thanks for taking the time to answer. I quickly tested this and it's > effectively the solution I referred to as circumventing the problem. I > could define controller functions (response mappings) manually and then > lambdaing the links to them, but it'd require a lot of code and I'd lose > the really helpful hierarchy tree present in the smartgrid. > > In my project I've certain root objects that are referred to from multiple > other objects (both directly and via join tables) and for as long as the > relations are direct (ie. without join table but direct reference) the > smartgrid works flawlessly and allows the user to navigate the tree, easily > viewing what kind of elements are linked to the current object and adding > new ones at arbitrary levels of hierarchy without any extra code. I was > really impressed with this feature when I first tried it. > > I just wonder why the M-to-M breaks, as it does render otherwise perfectly > but for that missing link to joined (by join table) entity. Since this > probably isn't simple error from my part but more like an uncommon need > (doubt join tables are really managed explicitly in many cases), the > smartgrid does not support it out of the box. I'll try to fiddle with the > source code and see if I could make it work. > -- 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.
