documents is a list of IDs so you have to turn each one of them into a
link. You can try:
db.wbmaster.documents.represent = lambda value, row: SPAN(*[row.name]+
[A(v, _href = URL('download', args = v)) for v in value])
Hope I make sense.
On Oct 14, 3:29 am, Johann Spies <[email protected]> wrote:
> This table
>
> db.define_table("wbdocuments",
> Field("name", label = "Document name"),
> Field("file", "upload", label = "Download"),
> format = '%(name)s')
>
> is linked in another table:
>
> db.define_table('wbmaster',
> Field('documents', 'list:reference wbdocuments'))
>
> As long as I do not add a .represent to the second table's 'documents' I can
> see the names of the documents in smartgrid as a
> comma seperated list.
>
> I want those doccuments to be downloadable when clicked on.
>
> I see in the book
>
> db.mytable.some_uploadfield.represent = lambda value,row: \
> A <http://web2py.com/book/default/docstring/A>('get it', _href=URL
> <http://web2py.com/book/default/docstring/URL>('download',
> args=value))
>
> can be used but so far I did not have any success.
>
> As soon as I try
>
> db.wbmaster.documents.represent = lambda value, row: \
> A('%s' % row.name, _href = URL('download', args = value))
>
> I just get a concatenation of the id's (eg. 69) where without it I would
> see a string like: 'x.docx, y.pdf'
>
> Help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Johann
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