>
> Virtual field shows up OK in the "table" view, but :
>
> 1. It does not appear at all when I click on "View" button
>
By default, virtual fields don't show up in readonly forms, but you can
list them in the "fields" argument. To pass the "fields" argument to the
view form when using the grid, you can use the "viewargs" argument. Maybe
something like:
grid = SQLFORM.grid(db.mytable,
viewargs={'fields': [f for f in db.mytable.__dict__
if isinstance(db.mytable[f], (Field
, Field.Virtual))]},
...)
We should probably add an argument to SQLFORM to automatically include
virtual fields in readonly forms.
> 2. are not used for "default" search
>
This would be difficult, as it would require selecting *all* the records
from the database, calculating the virtual fields for all records, and then
searching the Rows object using Python. Currently the search functionality
works by issuing a query to the database (i.e., the database does the
searching and returns only the matching records), and because the virtual
fields are not stored in the database, it is not possible for search to be
based on them. If this is important, you might consider using a computed
field instead.
Anthony
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