When users are accessing a table, grandfather controller passes args to parent controller.
Parent controller then passes args to child controller so user can edit child table records. Now after editing child record, user wants to return from child record to parent record and parent controller. What is syntax for child controller remembering what records parent controller was looking at? GRANDPARENT controller that calls the parent controller dict(header='Comments', body=lambda row: A('Comments',_class="btn btn-mini" , _href=URL('comment_on_an_object', vars=dict(filter=row.objectID, id=row.id )))), PARENT CONTROLLER - child is called in parent html below this def comment_on_an_object(): is_owner = (lambda row: row.created_by == auth.user_id) if auth.user else False db.SuperObjectComment.superObjectID.default = request.get_vars.filter db.SuperObjectComment.superObjectID.readable = False db.SuperObjectComment.superObjectID.writable = False commentsHeader=db.SuperObject(request.get_vars.filter) form = crud.create(db.SuperObjectComment) objectComments = db(db.SuperObjectComment.superObjectID == request.get_vars.filter).select() return locals() PARENT HTML that calls the child controller <td> {{if auth.user_id == objectComment.created_by:}} {{=A("Edit me", _href=URL('default','edit_object_comment', args=objectComment.id), _class='btn btn-min')}}</td> CHILD CONTROLLER - edit_object_comment def edit_object_comment(): db.SuperObjectComment.superObjectID.readable = True db.SuperObjectComment.superObjectID.writable = False comment_id = request.args(0) or redirect(URL('view_suggestions')) form = SQLFORM(db.SuperObjectComment, comment_id, next=(URL('default', 'comment_on_an_object'<!--this return to parent doesn't even get called. Why? -->)), _class='formstyle') if form.process().accepted: response.flash = 'form accepted' redirect(URL('comment_on_an_object', vars=dict(filter=???, id=??? <!--what do I put here? It returns to parent but args are all wrong -->))) elif form.errors: response.flash = 'form has errors' return dict(form=form) thanks, Alex Glaros -- 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.