There may be other problems, but if you want to build a list of forms, you
need to do taglist.append(thisform). The .extend() method inserts a list at
the end of an existing list, and since HTML helpers act as lists with
respect to their components, taglist.extend(thisform) ends up inserting the
first (and only) component of thisform, which is the table object inside the
form object (so, you're getting a list of tables instead of a list of
forms). See if that fix helps.
Anthony
On Saturday, October 8, 2011 7:40:14 PM UTC-4, monotasker wrote:
>
> I need to present a list of edit forms, one for each tag in db.tags. I've
> written the controller below, but it doesn't work because (I think) the
> variable "thisform" is identical for each form. I think the problem is that
> I need to assign a unique variable name to each form (i.e., each time
> through the "for" loop). But since you can't use operators in a variable
> name, I'm not sure if this is possible. Is there a simple solution?
>
> tags = db(db.tags).select()
> taglist = []
> for tag in tags:
> thisform = SQLFORM(db.tags, record=tag.id, deletable = True,
> showid=False, fields=['tag'], labels = {'tag':''}, submit_button = 'update',
> delete_label = 'delete ', record_id = None, formstyle = 'table2cols',
> separator = '', _name=tag.tag)
> if thisform.accepts(request.vars, formname=tag.tag):
> response.flash = 'updated'
> else:
> response.flash = 'form has errors'
> taglist.extend(thisform)
>
