On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 11:08:22 AM UTC-7, Joe Barnhart wrote:
>
> It's embarrassing to admit, but I'm really clueless when it comes to 
> collaborating using git.  I had barely mastered hg before the change and 
> I'm only able to figure out basic checkout-checkin stuff with git or I'd 
> contribute more.  I'm more of an old-school programmer who cut his teeth on 
> cvs.
>
> -- Joe
>
>
Most of it can be done with the github.com UI, but if you're uncomfortable 
about it, send me the text you'd like to see.  I've already done a couple 
PRs against the manual.  I'll be happy to give you credit in the log 
message.
(There's a git adapter for Mercurial, but I haven't tried using it against 
anything yet.  I'll let you know when I do.)

/dps

 

> On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 7:35:08 AM UTC-7, Anthony wrote:
>>
>> 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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