Try setting the fields that you do not want edited with their writable=False. Then using the basic {{=form}} syntax.
db.tablename.fieldname.writable = False db.tablename.fieldname.readable = False -Thadeus On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Peter Woolf <pwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello,I'm very pleased with how helpful crud is, but am having some > problems with the custom forms. I have a table with multiple fields, but I > want to use a custom crud form to just change *one* field in this form. > When I try to do this with =form.custom.widget the database does not update. > The only way I can get it to update is to let the user change *all* of the > fields. I've made up a small example (attached) to display this. If I > change the person's name, it does not work, but if I add in to the view the > line > {{=form.custom.widget.age}} > then the database will be updated. Any thoughts on a workaround? Am I > doing something wrong or is this a bug? > > Thanks, > --Peter > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---