I'd been thinking I needed to do that between form creation and the accepts call, but you're right, it works even after that point. I make the call to auth.register, and then modify the readonly attribute, and it works fine.
Thanks! Jay On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:06 PM, DenesL <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jay, you can do: > > form.element('#tablename_fieldname')['_readonly']=True > > > On Jun 16, 2:57 pm, Jay Shaffstall <[email protected]> wrote: >> That doesn't seem to affect the HTML form output at all for me. I've >> also tried changing the widget to LABEL, but that results in the same >> problem with the value not being transmitted back via the form. >> >> What I'd like to be able to do is set the readonly attribute of the >> input tag; but I don't know how to do that in this context, where I >> cannot insert code between the creation on the SQLFORM and the accepts >> call. >> >> Jay >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Bruno Rocha <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Sorry, I answered before read entire message, >> > if you want to chamhe it in form only, better to use the 'represent' >> > attribute >> > db.table.field.represent = lambda f: "<label> %s </label>" % f >> >> > -- >> > Bruno Rocha >> > [ About me: http://zerp.ly/rochacbruno ] >> >> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Jay Shaffstall <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> I have a situation where I need to adjust an SQLFORM field to be >> >> non-editable. I can do that with .writable = False, but that seems to >> >> also prevents database I/O for that field. What I'm trying to do is >> >> set a default that cannot be changed. >> >> >> Is there a way to set an SQLFORM field so that it appears as a label >> >> on the form itself, but is still writable for the database? >> >> >> For reference, I'm doing this with a field in the form returned by >> >> auth.register, so I cannot insert code between the form creation and >> >> the accepts call. I believe I'm restricted to working with the model >> >> before calling auth.register, or by using custom forms. >> >> >> Jay
