Apologies, I wasn't clear. I meant that the form in the view is static HTML and not generated by SQLFORM.
However, in the action that receives the POST, I instantiate a new SQLFORM for that model and pass request.post_vars to it. On Oct 25, 12:30 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > if you use > > form.accepts() > > what is form if you do not use FORM or SQLFORM? > > On Oct 24, 11:27 pm, Ruiwen Chua <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > I have created a manual HTML form (not FORM() or SQLFORM()) that has a > > few hidden fields (ie. <input type="hidden">..) > > > When this form posts back to the controller, form.accepts() returns > > True, but only the non-hidden field (there is only one, the rest are > > hidden) is saved to the database. The other fields all get saved as > > NULL. > > > Is there something I'm missing? > > > Thanks

