I do it adding a button like you did, but
<https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K3818KhWrTY/VbZRasM0_ZI/AAAAAAAAAJk/CNE1qCy52ak/s1600/salchicha1.png> view: div class="subtitulo"><h3> {{=datos_formula.nombre}} </h3></div> <div> <button class="btn" id="formula" title="clic para editar nombre" type="button" onclick="web2py_component('{{=URL('default','formula_general.load')}}', 'panel')"> <i class="icon-pencil"></i></button> </div> <br/> <div id ="panel" width="100%"></div> controller: <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rAThavnT4DU/VbZRg6O3aYI/AAAAAAAAAJs/wa4qSZeSPyM/s1600/salchicha2.png> def formula_general(): fields = ['nombre'] record = session.formula form = SQLFORM(db.formulas, record, fields=fields) request.post_vars.id = session.formula if form.process().accepted: response.flash = 'actualizado' redirect(request.env.http_web2py_component_location, client_side=True) elif form.errors: response.flash = 'favor revisar' return dict(form=form) in the new view (formula _general) <form action="#" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" data-w2p_target="panel"> <input type="hidden" name="_formname" value="{{=form.formname}}" /> <input type="hidden" name="_formkey" value="{{=form.formkey}}" /> {{=form.custom.widget.nombre}} {{=form.custom.submit}} <button class="btn" id="cancelar" onclick="web2py_component('{{=URL('default','nada.load')}}', 'panel')"> Cancelar</button> # turns screen or div blank (for when user clics on 'cancel' def nada(): return '' On Saturday, July 25, 2015 at 9:35:46 PM UTC-5, Alex Glaros wrote: > > not sure how to describe this question, but is there a way to avoid > writing a separate edit page for a data item by using the same page that > displays it, but having a button submitted that says "edit", which enables > a conditional statement to edit the data on the same page? > > Normally I have a "edit" button on a view page (view_profile_data), which > takes user to a separate view page (edit_profile_data). > > To avoid creating the edit_profile_data page, is it possible to have a > conditional in the view_profile_data page like this: > > {{if edit_button is clicked:}} > {{=form}} > {{pass}} > Does anyone do it like that or does everyone send user to separate edit > page? I guess I'm wondering if there are short-cuts. > > thanks, > > Alex Glaros > -- 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.
