[web2py] Re: jstree, controller call

2012-04-17 Thread Simon Ashley
Thanks. An excellent explanation and much appreciated. That works. I'll look at extending this to a new page and/ or a modal window. On Wednesday, 18 April 2012 08:53:50 UTC+10, Niphlod wrote: > > sorry to be so late > > if you have {{=URL('tree','stree','index')}} anywhere in the view it ge

[web2py] Re: jstree, controller call

2012-04-17 Thread Niphlod
sorry to be so late if you have {{=URL('tree','stree','index')}} anywhere in the view it gets translated to: /appname/tree/stree/index Now, if you check your source, you should see it. So, try to "hardcode" that url without using {{=URL()}} syntax and check if your javascript is working.

[web2py] Re: jstree, controller call

2012-04-17 Thread Simon Ashley
Thanks but unfortunately this doesn't help as the controller needs to be called from within the view. (what we believe to be normal python escaping techniques i.e. {{ ... }} doesn't seems to be returning appropriate responses. Have been stuck on this for weeks now. While our javascript skills m

[web2py] Re: jstree, controller call

2012-04-17 Thread villas
>From the book: response.render(view, vars): a method used to call the view explicitly inside the controller. view is an optional parameter which is the name of the view file, vars is a dictionary of named values passed to the view. HTH David

[web2py] Re: jstree, controller call

2012-04-17 Thread Simon Ashley
Ok, I'll rephrase this: - what's the best/ simpliest way of calling a controller from a view? - using javascript? or escaping python code? On Sunday, 15 April 2012 16:30:16 UTC+10, Simon Ashley wrote: > > Having difficulties coming up with an appropriate call back from a jstree > trigg