Hello Richard!
I looked at this, but wasn't sure how it could help -- what I need is a way
for a (non-technical) admin to create profile forms with arbitrary fields
(through a friendly web interface), and then users to be able to view and
edit their (run-time reconfigurable) profiles.
At any rate, the method I described above seems to work quite well, thanks
to web2py's versatility, allowing me to define forms programmatically
(excerpt below).
I was wondering if there was a more clever/efficient/proper way to do so.
Perhaps not!
Thanks!!
Luis.
for field in event_fields:
# see if person has a pre-defined value
found = False
for my_efield in me.event_field:
if my_efield.display_title == field.display_title:
found = True
break
if found:
if field.data_type == 'string':
new_input = INPUT(_type = field.data_type, _name =
field.id, requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY(), _value=my_efield.data )
form[0].insert(-2, TR(field.display_title+':', new_input
))
elif field.data_type == 'text':
.....
else:
if field.data_type == 'string':
new_input = INPUT(_type = field.data_type, _name =
field.id, requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY())
form[0].insert(-2, TR(field.display_title+':', new_input
))
elif field.data_type == 'text':
....
