Thanks, Anthony.  I am doing something similar by setting a session 
variable so that it will work in appadmin forms too. I wonder why widgets 
don't get the record since the represent function does.  Seems like an 
oversight.

On Sunday, October 27, 2013 1:41:20 PM UTC-5, Anthony wrote:
>
> Neither the form nor the record gets passed to the widget. However, you 
> could independently pull the record before adding the widget to the field:
>
> def myform():
>     record = db.mytable(request.args(0))
>     db.mytable.myfield.widget = lambda f, v, r=record: my_custom_widget(f,v
> , record=r)
>     form = SQLFORM(db.mytable, record=record).process()
>     return dict(form=form)
>
> Anthony
>
> On Sunday, October 27, 2013 2:11:14 PM UTC-4, mr.freeze wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks.  I have a custom widget that needs to do some advanced 
>> formatting based on other field values in the current record (i.e. in an 
>> edit form) but I don't see any way to get the current record in a custom 
>> widget. Any ideas?
>> def my_custom_widget(field, value, **attrs):
>>     #how do I get the current row here?
>>     pass
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nathan 
>>
>

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