The update should calculate the computed field as long as all the values needed for the calculation are included with the update.
Anthony On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 4:55:01 PM UTC-5, Richard wrote: > > Thanks for answering Anthony, > > Actually f1 and f2 belongs to the table, I am filtering them because I > want to treat them separately... > > About your question, I am investigating why my compute didn't work... My > first impression is that it is not include in form.vars so it not get hit > at all... But I am not sure of that... > > Richard > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Does form.vars include all the variables needed by the compute function? >> >> Also, instead of: >> >> **{f: v for f, v in form.vars.iteritems()} >> >> you can do: >> >> **db[request.args(0)]._filter_fields(form.vars) >> >> _filter_fields will filter out the "id" field as well as any form.vars >> that are not fields in the table. >> >> Anthony >> >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 4:35:37 PM UTC-5, Richard wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I need to do control record update in order to clear some fields values >>> in case a flag is set to false. But doing the update like this : >>> >>> >>> db(db[request.args(0)].id == request.args(1)).update(**{f: v for f, v in >>> form.vars.iteritems()}) >>> >>> prevent a compute field to be trigger and updating properly as well... >>> >>> So, to make sure my compute field get it I am doing another update() >>> like this >>> >>> >>> db(db[request.args(0)].id == request.args(1)).update() >>> >>> >>> Which work in one case by not in the other where I actually clear some >>> values like this : >>> >>> >>> db(db[request.args(0)].id == request.args(1)).update(f1=None, f2=None, >>> **{f: v for f, v in form.vars.iteritems() if f not in ('f1', 'f2')}) >>> >>> >>> Maybe I should do a db.commit() before my second "blank" update() though >>> it seems to me that it should be a better way and I am concern in reducing >>> db hit. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Richard >>> >>> -- >> 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. >> > > -- 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.