This could work, but this solution is more permanent than I want. I'd like to make it so that I could dynamically select the fields I want to edit. I know I can do it with SQLform but without all of the nice features that crud provides.
Other thoughts? thanks! --Peter On Oct 8, 11:30 am, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---