I changed it to db.news.link.show_if = (db.news.category=='1') adding the ' ' around the numbers and it seems to be working. I'm assuming once that's fixed, what I have will quit working?
On Saturday, November 8, 2014 7:43:23 PM UTC-6, DenesL wrote: > > Note that there is an issue with show_if > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/web2py/dnbPyALwZKE > > > On Friday, November 7, 2014 5:37:27 PM UTC-5, Jeremiah Peterson wrote: >> >> 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 >>>>>> >>>>> -- 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.
