The _value is the word that appears inside the button on the web-page. It
seems "Working..." is the value in form.vars where the key is _name.
regards
Ben
On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 3:20:23 PM UTC-7, Dave S wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 10:03:34 AM UTC-7, Ben Lawrence wrote:
>>
>> HI
>> I have a form with multiple submit buttons. It works.
>>
>> But to me it seems like a kludge. Is there a better way?
>>
>> Here is the controller where dictlist is just a list of dictionaries with
>> 'name' and 'id'
>> So the part that seems kludgey to me is checking which button was
>> pressed. I do it by testing which of the buttons has the "Working..." value
>>
>
> ITYM 'button name has the "Working" value'
>
> that is the default web2py behaviour
>>
>>
> What happens with the _value you set when you add the button? Isn't that
> returned only for the button that is clicked?
>
>
>
>>
>> buttons = []
>> for d in dictlist:
>> a = DIV( INPUT(_name = d['id'], _value = d['name'], _type =
>> 'submit'\
>> , _class = "btn btn-outline-primary") )
>> buttons.append(a)
>>
>> form = SQLFORM.factory(buttons = buttons)
>>
>> if form.process().accepted:
>> for keys in form.vars:
>> # "working" is the web2py default text shown on the button
>> after press
>> if name_form.vars[keys][0:4] == "Work":
>> redirect(URL('temp', vars=dict(who = keys) ))
>> break
>>
>>
>>
>
> /dps
>
>
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