Thanks. I decided against the first issue because as per the application I
am porting from Java EE to web2py, there'd be some overheads with that
route.
With regards to the second issue, I added a function to the insert and
update hooks to update any company set that is set as default if the new
record to be inserted has is_default set to true.
def set_all_default_company_to_false(fields):
if fields.get('is_default'):
rows = db(query).select(db.company.id)
for row in rows:
where I simply pass in the fields dict that is passed to functions in the
update and insert hooks.
Thanks for your response.
db(db.company.id == row.id).update(is_default=False)
On Monday, 18 January 2016 16:51:44 UTC, DenesL wrote:
>
> Hello Seraaj
>
> 1) You can still use SQLFORM if you want, just preset the widget and use
> the fields parameter of SQLFORM to filter:
>
> def someaction():
> db.table.fieldX.widget = SQLFORM.widgets.autocomplete(request, ...)
> form = SQLFORM(db.table, fields=['fieldX',], ...)
> if form.validate():
> # do something with the form's data
>
>
> or you can use SQLFORM.factory:
>
> form = SQLFORM.factory( db.table.fieldX.clone(...) )
>
> 2) Set the default for the is_default field to False
> and check if there is a record in the db with is_default==True and a
> different id that the current insert/update in the accepted portion of your
> form processing, and set it to False.
>
> Denes.
>
> On Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 6:33:56 PM UTC-5, Seraaj Muneer wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone from Accra Ghana.
>>
>> I've a small issue I'm not sure how to go about.
>>
>> I've a number of companies in the database. What I want to do is create a
>> form with just a select field containing the companies in the database, and
>> naturally a submit button to post the form to a controller. How do I use
>> the Autocomplete widget outside of SQLForm? Is it even possible? If not,
>> how do I represent the list of companies in HTML in a way that the user
>> will not have to scroll endlessly to select a company as would be the case
>> with a traditional HTML select?
>>
>> Also every company entity in the database has a boolean field,
>> 'is_default', now how do I make sure only one company has 'is_default' set
>> to True? So all others have it as False? Also if upon inserting or updating
>> a company, the new or updated record has 'is_default' set to True, then I
>> want to set that of all other companies as False.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
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