Put information about the current page in the request.args dictionary. You 
could use the session, but if your user opens a second browser window it 
becomes difficult to keep track of which session data corresponds to which 
browser tab.

On Friday, November 14, 2014 8:37:25 PM UTC-5, Joe wrote:
>
> I am working on an app where the user can select items by clicking on a 
> button for each item on the index page. It works fine, except after each 
> item selected the user has to be redirected to index and ends up on the top 
> of the first page at item 1. Then the user has to go back each time and try 
> to find whatever page they were on before when they made the last 
> selection. How can I fix this so when the user selects the item, he is 
> redirected to the same page?
>
> def index():
>     if len(request.args):
>         page=int(request.args[0])
>     else:
>         page=0
>     items_per_page=11
>     limitby=(page*items_per_page,(page+1)*items_per_page + 1)
>     rows=db().select(db.post.ALL, limitby=limitby)
>     form = SQLFORM(db.post)
>     if form.process().accepted:
>         redirect()
>     selected = db(db.post.selected == True).select()
>     not_selected = db(db.post.selected == False).select()
>     return dict(form=form, selected=selected, not_selected=not_selected, 
> rows=rows, page=page, limitby=limitby,items_per_page=items_per_page)
>
> def select():
>     id = request.vars.id
>     name = db(db.post.id == id).select().first()
>     if name:
>         name.selected = not name.selected
>         name.update_record()
>     return redirect(URL('index'))
>

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