Are you trying to set defaults values? See http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/07#Pre-populating-the-form
you were close, it is: form.vars.name = 'fieldvalue' On Sep 27, 3:27 pm, Matt Broadstone <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > > You can use SQLFORM.factory and still have complete control over the form > > layout/appearance -- > > see http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/07#Custom-forms. > > But if you want to access any of the SQLFORM widgets independently, they are > > of the form SQLFORM.widgets.[field type].widget -- > > see http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/07#Widgets. > > Anthony > > Somehow I completely missed this! Many apologies. Still, using this > approach I am still unclear as to how I might "fill" those widgets > when I'm using the SQLFORM custom form method. Ideally, I would fill > the form from the controller before display. I've tried: > - form.vars.var = "value" > - form.custom.var.widget.value = "value" > > Neither of which work. Is this possible? > Matt >
