What is the definition for the field in question? Probably you have type='string' but it should be type='list:integer'
On Sep 5, 3:56 pm, Fran <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm running latest stable release (Bzr r2247) & trying to use this for > a multiselect field: > widget = SQLFORM.widgets.checkboxes.widget > > But it's not working properly. > The create form works fine - the widget appears to work fine & the > database is indeed populated properly with the expected: > '|8|9|7|' > This displays fine in read screens. > However it fails to work in update forms - the checkboxes don't show > up as checked & so if the record is saved then the previous checkbox > states are lost :/ > > I tracked this down > to:http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mdipierro/web2py/devel/annotate/head:/gl... > (value = '|8|9|7|') > values = not isinstance(value,(list,tuple)) and [value] or value > (values = ['|8|9|7|']) > k in values > (False) > > The old, commented, code works fine though: > values = re.compile('[\w\-:]+').findall(str(value)) > (values = ['8', '9', '7']) > k in values > (True) > > I think the change was made to avoid a relatively slow call to 're' > right? > However it seems not to work properly... > > Many thanks :) > Fran.
