That is sweet!

Please point me to the documentation.  Is it the docstring in the
code?

On Jun 23, 10:58 am, DenesL <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Cliff,
>
> the id field is handled as a special case inside SQLTABLE and the
> linkto can only affect the _href portion of the anchor (A helper), not
> the visible part.
>
> But you can still do it:
>
> rows=db(...).select(...)
> t=SQLTABLE(rows)
> for n,row in enumerate(rows):
>   t[1][n][0][0] = A('Edit',_href=URL(r=request,args=[n]))
>
> you can play with the values in row to customize it.
>
> t[1] if the table's body
> t[1][n] is the n-th row
> t[1][n][0] is the first TD on that row
> t[1][n][0][0] is the content (in this case the id value).
>
> On Jun 22, 2:49 pm, Cliff <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > I'm not new to programming, but I am relatively new to Python and just
> > starting my web2py journey.
>
> > I have SQLTABLE working with one small exception.  For the edit link,
> > I would like to replace the record id with the word "Edit."
>
> > I have read the discussions in this group about using represent and
> > other methods.  Represent seems to be the simplest way to go, but I
> > cannot get it to work.
>
> > Could someone point me to a working example?  From there I can
> > probably figure it out.
>
> > Thanks

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