On Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 1:30:06 PM UTC-5, Alfonso Serra wrote: > > I thought about it but it has a disadvantage. The SQLFORM is perfect to > render complex queries without having to hardcode the html. If the models > changes i dont have to worry about the view. >
You don't necessarily have to hard-code the HTML -- you could write your own abstraction that takes either a web2py FORM object or a DAL table model and generates the particular HTML you need for your forms. Once you have created this abstraction, you could re-use it for all forms. > And this is where the bootstrap decouple comes in place. Everything is > easy if you use the welcome app as layout but for custom markup theres not > many examples on how to do things. > Just to be clear, nothing is coupled to Bootstrap (in fact, both FORM and SQLFORM pre-date Bootstrap). web2py provides several formstyles, including a couple that work specifically with Bootstrap. If you want to deviate from the built-in formstyles, yes, it will be more work, but that is unavoidable, as web2py cannot anticipate every possible way someone might want to structure the markup for a form. It's not reasonable to expect completely automatic UI generation in conjunction with customized UI requirements. > If its not too much trouble i have another question: > > The form style isnt aware of form errors so i cannot "style" the form > properly. > When i print form.errors inside the style i get an empty storage even when > there are errors. > > Is there any particular way to achieve this, using formstyles? > Not directly with formstyles, as the formstyle is used to generate the form DOM *before* validation. The errors aren't added until the form object is serialized into HTML (i.e., when the .xml method is called). If you don't like the errors automatically added to the form, you should instead hide the errors, and then you could add your own via server-side DOM manipulation. Anthony -- 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.
