Hi Anthony, Are you talking about a read-only form or an update form? On an update > form, it cannot use the alternative representation because the user must > enter the actual field value, not merely a transformed representation of it > (web2py has no general way of converting back from representations to > original values, and it isn't even guaranteed that each unique > representation has a unique original value). The one exception is with > select widgets, which can display alternate representations, but that has > to be set using the IS_IN_SET or IS_IN_DB validators. >
It's an update form with the nodeID field set to read-only. Since it's a form for admin only, I think, for now, I'll add the node name as a comment. Thanks for your patience in figuring out the problem. Kind regards, Annet.
