Sorry being persistent on this, but has somebody any idea why the observed
behavior is in place?
Best regards,
Tom.
On Thursday, June 19, 2014 9:46:06 AM UTC+2, Tom Clerckx wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have some undesired behavior in my app that I was able to resolve, but I
> would like to understand what goes wrong.
> I could easily reproduce the problem with a simple test-application,
> containing two pages and two forms (I'm skipping the boilerplate code that
> is created when making a new application):
>
> ####menu.py####
> response.menu = [
> (T('Home'), False, URL('default', 'index'), []),
> (T('Secondpage'), False, URL('default', 'secondpage'), []),
> ]
>
> ####controller####
> def index():
> form = SQLFORM.grid(db.contact, create=True, user_signature=False, )
> return dict(form=form)
>
> def secondpage():
> form = SQLFORM.grid(db.activity, create=True, user_signature=False, )
> return dict(form=form)
>
> ####index.html####
> {{extend 'layout.html'}}
> <h1>Index page</h1>
> {{=form}}
>
> ####secondpage.html####
> {{extend 'layout.html'}}
> <h1>Welcome to the 2nd page</h1>
> {{=form}}
>
> ####db.py####
> contact = db.define_table('contact',
> Field('first_name', 'string'),
> Field('last_name', 'string'),
> )
>
> activity = db.define_table('activity',
> Field('what_you_plan_to_do', 'string'),
> )
>
> The problem occurs as follows:
>
> * I go to the index page
> * I press the add button opening up the contacts form (which I don't fill
> in at this point)
> * In the menu I now press the link to the secondpage
> * When the secondpage is loaded I press the browser's back-button
> * Now I see the contacts form again which I fill in
> * When I now press the Submit button, I am redirected to the secondpage as
> opposed to staying on the index page, which is not the desired outcome.
>
> I could resolve this by giving the forms a formname, but I would like to
> understand why this behavior occurs.
> In this specific example the undesired behavior is not critical, but it
> was really a problem in my app as the redirect went to a .load page that
> did not contain any css styling.
>
>
> ####Updated controller resolving the problem####
> def index():
> form = SQLFORM.grid(db.contact, create=True, user_signature=False,
> formname='contact')
> return dict(form=form)
>
> def secondpage():
> form = SQLFORM.grid(db.activity, create=True, user_signature=False,
> formname='activity')
> return dict(form=form)
>
>
> ####web2py version info####
> 2.8.2-stable+timestamp.2013.11.28.13.54.07
> (Running on Rocket 1.2.6, Python 2.7.5)
>
>
> Thanks!
>
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