Perhaps we should change the BEAUTIFY tag classes. A proposal?
On Sep 16, 11:18 am, Eric <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.....
