Wow, a response from the man himself :-) I must admit I was secretly hoping for this and that this is another reason web2py seems like a better choice to me. I have been lurking at discussions for quite some time and I am constantly amazed by the amount of responses you give, always with a friendly tone. A big "Thank You Massimo" is in order, not just for this, but for everything you have done. For this great present called "web2py".
ChrisT On Mar 4, 4:42 pm, Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello ChrisT, > > it is possible but I am not sure I have seen a recipe posted for this. > I will try write one next week and post it, perhaps sooner. > > Massimo > > On Mar 4, 3:30 am, ChrisT <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > I am in the process of evaluating web2py and django to decide which > > one I am going to use for a project of mine. > > I am new to both frameworks and web frameworks in general (although I > > did experiment with Ruby on Rails a while back) > > I must say I am learning web2py much faster than Django which has a > > much steeper learning curve I think. > > For the past few days however I am trying to figure out the best way > > to do a (relatively) simple thing with both frameworks that I guess > > many people did before me. > > I wanted to have multiple forms grouped as one on a sigle page and a > > jquery plugin allowing clients to add and remove forms on the client- > > side. > > This would be very useful in many situations in my application. > > One example would be: > > * Creating an invoice (table invoice with fields such as > > reference_no , issue_date, customer_name, etc.) with multiple invoice > > lines (table invoice_line with fields such as description, amount, > > etc.) > > So I need to create a single form for the invoice creation and the > > client must be able to add or remove from the form as many > > invoice_lines as needed each time. > > The fact is that I was able to figure the best way to do it in Django > > would be using > > formsets:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/formsets/ > > and this:http://code.google.com/p/django-dynamic-formset/jQuery > > pluging > > I am troubled I didn't find anything similar implemented in web2py, I > > am sure many people before me did the same thing using both > > frameworks. I found some pieces of code here and there that enabled me > > to come close to doing it using web2py but I consider my efforts a > > hack (and an incomplete one so far :-)) > > I would like to know your opinions on how this should be done in > > web2py or how someone already did this. > > Please forgive my ignorance if I am missing the obvious here as I am > > new to all this. In fact this is my first post so go easy on me... > > > Regards, > > ChrisT > >
