Hi Richard, Quick question on your reply, how do you use ** as prefix of form.vars? I've seen it in the book but never knew what it was for.
Ken On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 12:09:39 PM UTC-4, Richard wrote: > > Hello Jack, > > You mean you want to pass the id of the inserted record to another > controller ? > > # Controller form 1 > if form.process(dbio=False).accept: > id = db.table.insert(**forms.vars) > session.last_record_id = id > > In the next controller you can access the id you store in session > # Controller form 2 > session.last_record_id # contains the previous inserted record id > > Watchout as session will keep last_record_id for the during of it... So > you may need to clean it (delete last_record_id from session after second > controller complete process) to make sure you are always refering to the > proper id... > > Richard > > > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 2:19 AM, Dave S <snide...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 9:53:35 PM UTC-7, Jack Lodge wrote: >>> >>> Im trying to make a Order system for my alevel course work and when im >>> filling in some forms i make a *Request* then i redirect the user to >>> the *Item_Request* form to fill in the details there, i need to be able >>> to get the id of the Request that they just submitted so i can populate the >>> Item_Request Table. >>> >>> I am using Pythonanywhere and web2py >>> >>> how would i do this? >>> >> >> One way would be for the item form to record in the session the id >> returned by its add operation . The order form would then look up that id >> in the session. >> >> /dps >> >> -- >> 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+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> 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.
