>
> I've removed the two lines, but the behavior is still the same. So there
> must be an other error in my code?
>
Hmm, I would think it should work -- not sure what the problem is.
> My idea is that the format does specify the string for db.object.location
> and the db.object.location.represent should modify the string to be a link.
> Is this not possible at all?
>
That's not how it works. When the table is defined, if you have
Field('location', db.location, ...) with no explicit "represent=...", then
it will automatically set the "represent" attribute for you based on the
_format attribute of the db.location table. However, if you set an explicit
"represent" attribute, you won't get the automatically generated version
based on _format. In that case, you'd have to do it manually:
db.object.location.represent = lambda location, row: \
A(db.location._format % db.location(location),
_href=URL('location', 'update', args=(location.id),
user_signature=True))
Anthony
