Good point. Maybe submit a PR to the book repo. On Monday, May 8, 2017 at 5:07:01 PM UTC-4, Joe Barnhart wrote: > > In the section about SQLFORM, the description of hidden fields is > demonstrably wrong. The code example is: > > form.vars.a = request.vars.a > form = SQLFORM(..., hidden=dict(a='b')) > > > Since the variable "form" is created on the second line, it is not > available on the first as the target of an assignment. > > I do not know what the documentation should say, but I suspect its a bit > more complex than this simple two-line example. I've been struggling with > this most of the day and saving the values from hidden fields still eludes > me. I can't assign the fields in an "onvalidation" method because the > accepts() logic specifically looks for fields which are in the request.vars > and excludes them from the saved fields. I've been tracing thru "validate" > and "accept" in FORM and SQLFORM most of the day looking for a crack in the > armor to get my hidden fields saved. > > Joe > >
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