Hi Massimo,
Sorry for my poor explanation.
What I don't get is in the view when i call the field value
{{=tipo_3.descripcion}} I get the whole text and not the truncated one
like in the SQLFORM.grid case.
On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 9:32:18 AM UTC-3, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
> What does it mean it does not work? Can you import it? Can you import it
> from python?
>
> On Tuesday, 11 September 2012 00:55:03 UTC-5, Pepe Araya wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I need to truncate a field that contains HTML content.
>>
>> Now i'm using htmltruncate <https://github.com/eentzel/htmltruncate.py> in
>> a controller that return a SQLFORM.smartgrid and it works perfect:
>>
>> def noticias():
>>
>> db.noticias.cuerpo.represent = lambda field,row:
>> XML(htmltruncate.truncate(field, 100))
>> grid = SQLFORM.smartgrid(db.noticias,
>> linked_tables=['adjuntos_noticia'])
>>
>> return dict(grid =grid)
>>
>>
>> But when I try to implement a in a controller in this way:
>>
>> def index():
>> db.publicaciones.descripcion.represent = lambda field, row:
>> XML(htmltruncate.truncate(field, 10))
>> tipo_3 = db(db.publicaciones.tipo == 3).select().last()
>>
>> return dict(tipo_3 = tipo_3)
>>
>>
>> It doesn't work
>>
>>
>> The module is inside the "modules" folder of the app and it's imported
>> via:
>> import htmltruncate
>>
>>
>> any help is welcome!
>>
>> Best!
>>
>
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