> > Another quick question if I may. What if I didn't want to store the URL > in a database at all? Can you have conditionals inside the > db.define_table? Or maybe have separate function that would return the URL > string and call it from inside the _href. Something like: > > _href='http://' + get_url(shipment.url) + value > > Would it be better to do it this way, eliminating the need for a separate > table to store the URLs? Although "better" probably depends on what you > are trying to do.
Sure, if it's a relatively small number of shippers, you might just create a dictionary in a model file with shipper names as keys and urls as values. Anthony
