Looking at latest version 2.21. The change you mention is only for create forms, not edit forms. It basically say if a field is readable and not writable and has not value, it should not be displayed. It seems the correct behavior to me. Maybe in 1.18 the same logic was incorrectly applied to edit fors as well? Do not remember. Please try the latest.
On Saturday, 9 October 2021 at 14:14:17 UTC-7 Awe wrote: > Thanks for the answer > I haven't tried the latest version and I hope this behavior doesn't change > from version to version.. > but. I thought / hoped a web2py developer could explain why this > important/central feature was changed and how to deal with it best. > Jim S schrieb am Samstag, 2. Oktober 2021 um 16:26:42 UTC+2: > >> Have you tried with the latest web2py? >> >> I'm assuming the behavior is the same as with 2.18.5. >> >> Have you been able to pinpoint a commit that would have changed this >> behavior? >> >> -Jim >> >> On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 4:04:28 AM UTC-5 Awe wrote: >> >>> Is anybody out there facing the same problem, wondering about getting no >>> answers... >>> >>> Awe schrieb am Mittwoch, 4. August 2021 um 18:16:40 UTC+2: >>> >>>> we are using sqlform.factory a lot, but the way fields are shown/behave >>>> was changed from >>>> 2.15.4 >>>> fields = [f.name for f in table if (ignore_rw or f.writable or >>>> f.readable) >>>> and (readonly or not f.compute)] >>>> to >>>> 2.18.5 >>>> fields = [f.name for f in table if (ignore_rw or f.writable or >>>> (f.readable and f.default)) and not f.compute] >>>> >>>> so in 2.15.4 it was no problem to have an edit form with fields like >>>> readable=True, writable=False, default="" >>>> this field having an empty string was shown disabled, great as expected. >>>> >>>> in 2.18.5 >>>> this field will not be shown anymore, we need to set default=" " like >>>> this, which is >>>> not very useful. >>>> >>>> Is this a bug or feature, or is there a NEW common way to have empty >>>> readonly fields in an >>>> edit form >>>> >>>> Many thanks for any help! >>>> >>> -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/5a36f80e-144a-47d5-99a7-ad78a549105fn%40googlegroups.com.
