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: > > > > > > > > > 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

