Thanks, perfect, that was just what I was looking for! Is that in the book or the docs somewhere?
On Thursday, October 16, 2014 8:29:37 PM UTC+2, Anthony wrote: > > You can pass the format as the third argument to the validator: > > IS_IN_DB(db(db.gang_users.gang == gang.id), db.gang_users.nickname, db. > gang_users._format) > > Anthony > > On Thursday, October 16, 2014 2:02:02 PM UTC-4, Álvaro José Iradier wrote: >> >> Hi, I have a field in table 'expenses' defined as: >> db.define_table('expenses', >> Field('gang', db.gangs, required=True, notnull=True), >> ... >> Field('payer', db.gang_users, label=T('Payer')), >> ... >> >> Table gang_users has a format like: >> >> db.define_table('gang_users', >> Field('gang', db.gangs, required=True, notnull=True), >> Field('auth_user', db.auth_user, required=True, >> notnull=True), >> Field('nickname', 'string', required=False, >> notnull=False), >> format = lambda r: "%s (%s)" % (r.auth_user.email, >> r.nickname) if r.nickname else r.auth_user.email >> ) >> >> When the "payer" field is shown in a SQLFORM, it will display a dropdown >> with the list of users from the table gang_users, formatted according to >> the "auth.user.email (nickname)" rule defined in the format parameter of >> gang_users table. >> >> However, I want to filter out this users, by doing in the controller: >> >> db.expenses.payer.requires = IS_IN_DB(db(db.gang_users.gang == gang.id), >> db.gang_users.nickname) >> >> When the validator is set, only users from the given gang are displayed >> in the dropdown, but I can display the nickname or id or any column from >> the gang_users table. I would like to keep the "auth_users.email >> (gang_users.nickname)" format as without the validator. >> >> Is it possible? >> >> Thanks very much. >> >> -- >> (:=================================:) >> Alvaro J. Iradier Muro - aira...@gmail.com <javascript:> >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.