Thank you, Anthony! This solved it. Should I use IS_LIST_OF() to enable the search function in SQLFORM?
On Monday, March 30, 2015 at 10:35:19 AM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: > > Near the end of this section > <http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07/forms-and-validators#Validators> > > of the book, it notes that the only validators that work with list:-type > fields are IS_IN_SET(..., multiple=True), IS_IN_DB(..., multiple=True), > IS_NOT_EMTPY(), and IS_LIST_OF(). The latter can be used to apply > IS_ALPHANUMERIC() to each item in the list. > > Anthony > > On Monday, March 30, 2015 at 9:23:01 AM UTC-4, LoveWeb2py wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> When using a list:string my validators don't work like they used to on a >> regular string. For example if I had requires=IS_ALPHANUMERIC() >> >> when I input 1234568--/ I would receive an error >> >> but when I switched my field type from string to list:string I can now >> put anything in the field such as 1234568--/ and it works. I also noticed >> the SQLFORM.GRID does not allow you to specify that column in the dropdown >> list anymore. Why is there no exception for list handling? >> > -- 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.