I made a similar app before and you can find my slice post
here<http://www.web2pyslices.com/slice/show/1467/cascading-drop-down-lists-with-ajax>.
I hope it helps.
On Monday, May 7, 2012 6:09:45 AM UTC-5, Stefan L wrote:
>
> Not sure I got the heading understandable, but this is what I want to
> achieve (actual values only for demonstration, the app is not about cars
> :-)):
>
> Given a table:
> db.define_table('cars', Field('maker','string'), Field('model', 'string'),
> Field('colour','string'))
> db.cars.maker.requires=IS_IN_SET(('Volvo','VW','Chrysler'))
> db.cars.model.requires=IS_IN_SET(('V50','S60','Passat','Voyager'))
> db.cars.colour.requires=IS_IN_SET(('blue','red','pink'))
>
> How can I present a form to the user where the drop downs depend on each
> other, i.e. if the user selects a make (Volvo) the next drop down only
> shows the relevant models (V50, V60) and selecting a model populates the
> colour drop down with the available choices? I've looked at an example
> from
> web2pyslices<http://www.web2pyslices.com/article/show/1410/cascading-drop-down-lists>
> but
> in my case I want to store all the choices made (maker, model, colour), not
> only the final value as in the example (in that case, the area code).
> Should I be able to adapt the example for my purposes?
>
> Regards,
> /Stefan
>
