No, the documentation mentions this as a limitation of using
SQLFORM.factory with multiple tables.
On Monday, April 21, 2014 1:56:44 PM UTC-4, Spokes wrote:
>
> I'm using SQLFORM.factory() to generate a form from multiple tables, some
> of which have fields that have the same names as fields in other tables. In
> the form that's generated, the first instance of the field with the common
> name appears, but any subsequent instances of the field with that name are
> absent. A basic version of the code is something like this:
>
> Model:
>
> db.define_table('table1', ... Field('address', type='text',length=512,
> Label = T('address')), ...)
> db.define_table('table2', ...)
> db.define_table('table3', ... Field('address', type='text',length=512,
> Label = T('address')), ...)
>
> Controller:
>
> form = SQLFORM.factory(db.table1, db.table2, db.table3)
>
> In the generated form, only one instance of 'address' would appear. Is
> there a way to have SQLFORM.factory() create a form that contains all
> instances of fields with shared names, and to have it distinguish them so
> as to facilitate inputting the values of the form.vars into the appropriate
> tables (I'd imagine an insert with _filter_fields should still work, but
> asking just in case)? Thank you.
>
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