Thanks to howesc and Jim for your responses. Jim: while BEAUTIFY offers exactly the kind of formatting I'd like, it doesn't make the table tags CSS-friendly like SQLFORM does. So I can't format the output.
howesc: SQLFORM with the readonly=True parameter is exactly what I'm looking for, except that it doesn't grab the values for the current user -- all the values are set to None or not set, which is the expected behavior. If there were something like a "prepopulate" argument that allowed you to pull a record where "created_by" equals the current user, it would be exactly what I'm looking for. In any case, it's not that hard to pull the values individually and then format them. I just thought that there might be something similar to SQLFORM, except that it would display a table record instead of creating a form to insert a record. Thanks again for your input. Eric On Sep 15, 3:04 pm, howesc <[email protected]> wrote: > have you tried: > > row = db(...).select().first() > > and in your view: > > {{=row}} > > and/or > > {{=BEAUTIFY(row)}} > > do either of those get you good enough? > > so often people want to customize the display of just a single result so > there is not a ton of tools to try and create a generic rendering.....
