Thanks you both!
One more help request: I have a "represent" related question in this
topic https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/9R9iQT_BVyU/discussion
please, can you help me to understand what I'm doing wrong?
On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 11:33:18 AM UTC-3, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
> {{=db.publicaciones.descripcion.represent(tipo_3.descripcion,tipo_3}}
>
> I do not think you want the extra =.
>
> On Tuesday, 11 September 2012 08:47:00 UTC-5, villas wrote:
>>
>> I end up doing something like this:
>>
>> {{=db.publicaciones.descripcion.represent(=tipo_3.descripcion,tipo_3)}}
>>
>> I hope that helps, but maybe there is a better way?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 1:48:59 PM UTC+1, Pepe Araya wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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