On Aug 20, 4:18 am, Alastair Medford <[email protected]>
wrote:
> What I am trying to do is create a controller function that can be
> called via ajax and returns some html content along with an SQLFORM.
> I've got the content and form to appear on the page, but the SQLFORM
> doesn't work as it should. When I submit information from the view
> that the generated content has been placed into, the page refreshes
> and nothing has been inserted into the database. The calendar widget
probably there are form.errors but you are not checking for them using
elif form.errors: ...
> for the date field in the form also does not work. When I call the
> controller function directly, the calendar widget works fine and the
> data submits to the database properly. Here is my controller code:
>
> def buildPage():
> content = []
> data = xmltools.getData('blah')
> template = xmltools.getTemplate(data.tag)
> for i in template:
> if i.tag == "header":
> content.append(H1(i.text))
> elif i.tag == "label":
> content.append(P(i.text))
> elif i.tag == "database":
> form = SQLFORM(db[i.text])
> content.append(P(form))
P is not a valid container for FORM, use DIV
> else:
> content.append(i.tag)
> if form.accepts(request.vars,session):
> response.flash='new record inserted'
>
> return response.render('default/form.html',dict(page=DIV
> (*content)))
>
> and in default/form.html:
>
> {{include 'web2py_ajax.html'}}
>
> {{=page}}
>
> The response.flash also does not work in either circumstance, nor does
response.flash is in layout.html which you have not included with
{{extend 'layout.html'}}
you have to display it yourself in your view
> form validation. Is this at all the right way I should be approaching
> this? I've found posts that do similar things to what I'm trying to
> do, but nothing seems to complete the picture.
>
> Looking ahead I also think I may have a problem with how validation is
> handled by default. I believe the way SQLFORM reports errors is to
> refresh the entire page and do something similar to response.flash. If
> I want just the ajaxed div to refresh and not the entire page, how
> would I do this with SQLFORM, if it's even possible?
>
> As always, any insight is appreciated.
There might be more to this...
Denes.
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