I am not sure whether the "trick" is covered in the latest book, but it is quite usual and appeared in many code snippets I've seen.
The following lines are copied from cookbook2, which is self explained. db.person.name.writable = False # field is readonly db.person.name.readable = False # field is hidden On Sep6, 2:24pm, weheh <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Iceberg, but I'm not familiar with the "standard trick" -- > could you point me to some documentation on such? > > On Sep 5, 11:51 pm, Iceberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Perhaps the standard trick still helps? I did not try it. > > db.table1.field1.readable=db.table1.field1.writable=False > > db.table2.field2.readable=db.table2.field2.writable=False > > > On Sep6, 10:50am, weheh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the quick response, Massimo. I'll try it out. However, > > > could you also show the syntax of how I can selectively pull out > > > fields from the different tables in the SQLFORM.factory? In other > > > words, assum there are no table naming conflicts between the two > > > tables but I don't want to use all the fields from either table1 or > > > table2. How would I pull just the fields I want and populate the form > > > with them? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
