Massimo,
Yes, I did. Does not make a difference.
Thanks for the suggestion,
Kiran
On Monday, January 13, 2014 7:49:15 PM UTC+5:30, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
> Have you tried replacing
>
> value="{{=form.custom.inpval['country']}}"
>
> with
>
> value="{{=form.custom.dspval['country']}}"
>
> On Sunday, 12 January 2014 22:50:43 UTC-6, subbaram...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Really would like some help with this. Anyone have suggestions?
>> Thank you,
>> Kiran
>>
>> On Saturday, January 11, 2014 12:10:07 AM UTC+5:30,
>> subbaram...@gmail.comwrote:
>>>
>>> Hello All,
>>> The *design *is: I have a custom form with the a controller that
>>> inserts/updates a table. Tthe form accepts data, and on successful
>>> submission of this form, it stays on the same page (there are no redirects
>>> to another page or form)
>>> *Issue*: The problem am seeing is, when I update values in the form,
>>> and submit it, the entered values are lost when the form returns because of
>>> successful submit, or due to errors. I have tried to use keepvalues=True in
>>> the form.accepts() and form.process() methods. No luck.
>>> Details below.
>>>
>>> Since the page am building has specific design needs, I went with the
>>> option of a custom form, where I used the form.custom.* options quite a
>>> bit. Therefore input fields in the form look like this
>>> <input type="text" class="form-control
>>> {{if form.errors.country:}}invalidinput{{pass}}"
>>> id="country" name="country"
>>> value="{{=form.custom.inpval['country']}}"
>>> placeholder="{{=form.custom.comment['country']}}"
>>>
>>> Also the controller is coded as below
>>> x = db(db.x.x_id == auth.user.id).select().first()
>>> if x:
>>> form = SQLFORM(db.x, record=x)
>>> else:
>>> form = SQLFORM(db.x)
>>> pass
>>>
>>>
>>> # process the form
>>> if form.accepts(request.vars, formname='basicinfo_form', keepvalues=
>>> True):
>>> response.flash = 'Basic Information updated successfully.'
>>> elif form.errors:
>>> response.flash = 'The submitted form contains errors. The
>>> fields in error are highlighted below.'
>>> else:
>>> response.flash = 'Please fill the form.'
>>> pass
>>>
>>> return dict(form=form)
>>>
>>> I was thinking that maybe I should capture the request.vars and send it
>>> back to the view alongwith the form.
>>> If the request.vars.country value exists, then I use that, instead of
>>> the form.custom.inpval['country']. This only makes the view code a bit more
>>> verbose, but if it solves the problem, then nothing like it.
>>>
>>> Can anyone suggest what I could do to sort this out?
>>> Thank you,
>>> Kiran
>>>
>>> P.S: I did take a look at all the conversations in the forum about
>>> keepvalues. None of them seemed to help me. Though I did find this one to
>>> be interesting and am curious if this is sorted out already:
>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/web2py/keepvalues$20on$20validate/web2py/MNEYo96Shzg/jjKZaMmfAgQJ
>>>
>>>
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