or use a computed field ? On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 7:24:36 PM UTC+1, Derek wrote: > > You'd probably want to have a javascript that calls a special function on > your controller that returns the results from gethostbyname(). > > On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 10:46:04 AM UTC-7, Saba wrote: >> >> hello, >> >> I have a table like this: >> >> db.define_table('host', >> Field('host_name', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()), >> Field('host_ip', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()) >> ) >> >> i'm using SQLFORM.grid to display/edit the data in the table. When a user >> inputs a host_name field, I would like to automatically populate the >> host_ip field by doing an nslookup of the host_name. Is there a way to do >> this. Any suggestions please? >> >> thanks, >> Saba >> >> >
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