I haven't found a solution to this, but have found more detail about the problem:
The first defined autocomplete widget on a particular field overrides ALL others defined after. idb.define_table( 'fee', ... Field('module_code', 'string', writable=False, label='Module code', requires=IS_IN_DB(idb, idb.module.code, error_message='Required'), widget=SQLFORM.widgets.autocomplete(request, idb.module.code, min_length=1), ) ) idb.define_table( 'tutor_module', ... Field('module_code', 'string', writable=False, label='Module code', requires=IS_IN_DB(idb, idb.module.code, error_message='Required'), widget=SQLFORM.widgets.autocomplete(request, idb.module.code, id_field=idb.module.id, orderby=idb.module.code, min_length=2, help_fields=[idb.module.code, idb.module.title], help_string='%(code)s - %(title)s'), ) ) In this case, the second table's autocomplete widget always renders the way the first should (including the missing id_field). -- 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.