that's what I needed to know thanks Niphlod
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Niphlod <niph...@gmail.com> wrote: > uhm. there's a hiccup in the process (or at least in what you think should > be the process). > You're using factory(), so you need to handle your own db i/o. > If you want to insert a new record, how can you know in advance its id if > you didn't actually insert it into the table ? There is no way around it. > > On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 10:05:15 PM UTC+1, Alex Glaros wrote: >> >> I don't know enough to be able to reply. Here is code that works. >> Please let me know if there's better way. messageID captures the record >> ID so it can populate children further down the process >> > -- > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/Eha7_vPh1E0/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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.