Thank you all for your suggestions. In the end, I settled for a string field with IS_IN_SET(['yes', 'no']).
Bootstrap toggle is nice, but the alignment is off, and the stubborn label is still on the right where I don't want it to be. I know these issues are fixable, but nah, I'm going for the quick way. On Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 8:50:09 PM UTC+8 Leonel Câmara wrote: > You could make a custom widget for that field, in your define_table one of > the attributes a Field can receive is widget. > > However for such a simple case it might be worth it so simply use > something like: https://github.com/gitbrent/bootstrap4-toggle/ > > A quarta-feira, 29 de março de 2023 à(s) 13:18:49 UTC+1, > [email protected] escreveu: > >> On Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 4:46:26 AM UTC-7 Dave S wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 4:10:19 AM UTC-7 Dave S wrote: >> >> On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 5:51:30 AM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote: >> >> Is it possible to change the boolean field widget from checkbox to option >> with yes and no? How? >> >> >> >> I don't think you can do that with the default radio widget. >> >> This works: >> >> form3 = SQLFORM.factory( >> Field('bool', type = "string", default = False, \ >> >> >> um, that default should now be 'yes' or 'no', since the type isn't >> boolean >> >> >> requires=IS_IN_SET(['yes', 'no']), \ >> widget = lambda field, value: >> SQLFORM.widgets.radio.widget(field, value)), >> _name = "Georgeform") >> if form3.process(formname = "Georgeform", dbio = False, keepvalues = >> True).accepted: >> response.flash = "form3 bool %s" % ("T" if form3.vars.bool == >> 'yes' else 'F') >> else: >> response.flash = "form3 bool not set" >> >> >> but if you set the field type to boolean, you always get form3.vars.bool >> = True. >> >> Since I'm about to go to bed (as I said an hour ago), I'm not going to >> explore custom widgets, or using the INPUT() helper But synthesizing a >> boolean from the radio set is my idea of an obvious approach. The >> caveat is that if you're using SQLFORM instead of the factory, I'm not >> sure what will happen with the row posted to the table. Again, not before >> bed >> >> >> Ok, I won't *try* anything before bed, but I'd probably make the table >> def use a computed field for the boolean and have it not visible, and just >> add the radio set field to the table. >> >> /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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/aaee5a74-10a7-425d-b091-d4ded624270dn%40googlegroups.com.
