Thank you very much, I really appreciate it. That worked perfectly!
On Friday, November 7, 2014 4:11:09 PM UTC-6, DenesL wrote:
>
> Hi Jeremiah,
>
> the show_if hides the whole row as it applies a display:none to it.
> In the custom forms we can only access individual components, not the
> whole row (AFAIK).
>
> But, you can get it work by including an element with the same id as the
> row that is being hidden, e.g.
>
> <div id="news_link__row">Link: {{=form.custom.widget.link}}<br></div>
>
> Denes.
>
> On Thursday, November 6, 2014 8:56:10 PM UTC-5, Jeremiah Peterson wrote:
>>
>> My controller is this.
>>
>>
>> def news_create():
>> db.news.link.show_if = (db.news.category==1)
>> db.news.votes.default = 0
>> form = SQLFORM(db.news)
>> return locals()
>>
>>
>> And the view is this.... thanks so much for looking.
>>
>>
>> {{extend 'layout.html'}}
>>
>> <h2>New Item</h2>
>> {{=form.custom.begin}}
>> Type: {{=form.custom.widget.category}}<br><br>
>> Title: {{=form.custom.widget.title}}<br><br>
>> Link: {{=form.custom.widget.link}}<br><br></div>
>> Comment: {{=form.custom.widget.comment}}<br><br></div>
>> {{=form.custom.submit}}
>> {{=form.custom.end}}
>>
>>
>> The html comes out like this.
>>
>> <foraction="#"enctype="multipart/formdatamethod="post">Type: <select
>> class="generic-widget" id="news_category" name="category"><option value=
>> </option><option value="2">ask</option><option value="1">share</option>
>> </select><br><br>Title: <input class="string" id="news_title" name="title"
>> type="text" value="" /><br><br>Link: <input class="string" id="news_link"
>> name="link" type="text" value="" /><br><br></div>Comment: <textarea class
>> ="text" cols="40" id="news_comment" name="comment" rows="10"></textarea>
>> <br><br></div><input type="submit" value="Submit" /></form>
>>
>>
>> I tried to wrap the Title line and Link line with some divs with ID's and
>> then tried to show/hide them using javascript depending on what the drop
>> down value was for category field. For some reason I wasn't able to make
>> that work either. I could get it working in jsfiddle, but then when I put
>> that js in my view it wouldn't work. I've never done any js coding before
>> though so wasn't real confident on what I was doing.
>>
>> Basically what I'm trying to do is if the person chooses ask, they should
>> see the comment input, and then if these choose share, they see the link
>> input field.
>>
>> Jeremiah
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, November 6, 2014 7:35:57 PM UTC-6, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>>
>>> Can you show us your form? Do you use {{=form.custom.widget[field]}} or
>>> <input..../>. The latter is not supposed to work
>>>
>>> On Thursday, 6 November 2014 09:45:10 UTC-6, Jeremiah Peterson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> in my controller I have
>>>>
>>>> db.news.link.show_if = (db.news.category==1)
>>>>
>>>> In my view if I just use {{=form}} then it will only show the 'link'
>>>> field if the category field is set to 1.
>>>>
>>>> However if I use {{=form.custom.begin}} so can I can place my form
>>>> fields in the order I want, it doesn't make that link field conditional
>>>> any
>>>> longer.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to fix this, or is there a way to use {[=form}} and have
>>>> my fields show up in the order I want them too?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jeremiah
>>>>
>>>
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