If you don't need the main features of the grid (eg pagination) then it is better not to use it. I mean, it is a trivial task to produce a nice table without pagination.
The other option would be to hide the pagination with jQuery, which should also be easy to do. On Friday, May 3, 2013 5:54:08 PM UTC+1, Mandar Vaze wrote: > > > > On Monday, April 23, 2012 7:57:23 PM UTC+5:30, Bruce Wade wrote: >> >> Yeah see that was my original question how to tell grid to only >> select/count the first 50,000 records instead of it just generating pages >> for all the records. >> > > I understand that this is an year-old thread - but I too have a > requirement to show ONLY X records out of total Y records it would > otherwise show across pages. > > Other thing that might work for me is if there is a way to NOT show the > pagination at all. This way I can set paginate=X and since user can't > "access" pagination, it would provide similar result as if SQLFORM.grid > limited the number of records displayed to the user. > > This is useful when you want to show like "Top 10" (Or in case of Bruce > Above, Top 200 Ads) of some query. > > -Mandar > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
